ninjarabbi
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1976? Exactly the same booklet I was given in Brighton CIO back in 1983!
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RAF Recruiting Booklet 1976 Part1
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Lux_deluxe
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True. My sister joined in 1980 and me in 1982 and I recall that booklet very well. Some of those pictures came flooding back. Thanks OP.
GD on Wheels
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I also got one in 1984. It makes me wonder how long they were still being given out for?
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They wanted me to apply for ATechE but that sounded too much like bulb-changing while stood on a wing in a freezing hangar or flight-line.
I don't remember the brochure but it obviously obviously influenced me to want to be with the A -team.
Out of interest, I wonder what LTechAF (TG3) would look like on today's brochure?
I don't remember the brochure but it obviously obviously influenced me to want to be with the A -team.
Out of interest, I wonder what LTechAF (TG3) would look like on today's brochure?
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Horribly familiar to me too.... Brighton 1976......
Probably an empty page with the line - "Apply at your local Job Centre"
Old John
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That was me -aged 21 at TASF Akrotiri in 1975.
It says 'flight line mechanic', but I was a J/T A Tech E (or was I still A Fitt E in those days?)
'Tashyman' posted the picture of me on here 3 years ago.
Known as 'JD' then, and still now.
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I don't remember the booklet but I joined up in '76 so can relate to some of the photos, especially turning up at the station with long hair, platform shoes and massively flared trousers. The first items of uniform we were issued with was a woolly pully and a pair of shoes which we had to wear immediately. Everyone's trousers were now far too long because they were meant to be worn with platforms so we had to tuck them in our socks, we looked a right bunch of be11ends.
Brilliant post by the way J Y!
Brilliant post by the way J Y!
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fourteen2two
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Not too different to 71 when I joined.
The long hair was gone pretty soon after arriving at Swinderby.
Civviescreplaced with denims grey, Raf shirt and tie,beret and dms boots!
The lovely hairy battledress arrived soon after.
Piccys of the then new Jaguar plus good old Harrier and RAFG.
Brochure did not show 18 man rooms still the norm,even in RAFG at that time,LOA was great though.
My old trade air photog, then air camera fitter, later absorbed into Air Radar with resultant pay rise!
Finished as Eng tech AV .
Still pension is nice.
The long hair was gone pretty soon after arriving at Swinderby.
Civviescreplaced with denims grey, Raf shirt and tie,beret and dms boots!
The lovely hairy battledress arrived soon after.
Piccys of the then new Jaguar plus good old Harrier and RAFG.
Brochure did not show 18 man rooms still the norm,even in RAFG at that time,LOA was great though.
My old trade air photog, then air camera fitter, later absorbed into Air Radar with resultant pay rise!
Finished as Eng tech AV .
Still pension is nice.