This has brought back dam good memories of my pass out parade. March 18 1992 it was. Chucked it down with rain and yet we were still out there on the parade ground. The band struck up Hawaii Five-O as it rained, much to the amusement of us in the parade and we had Chipmunks as our fly past.
This brought back memories of my passing out parade in 1966. Nothing has changed except I seem to remember we held our rifles on our shoulders as we marched.
I spent years of my childhood at RAF Kinloss. 1955/60. I loved it there and still go back occasionally. The Army has now taken over Kinloss. No more RAF. Sad. The Stables bar used to be my primary school.
I passed out a week early at Swinderby (long story) so had to transfer flights during the last week. I wasn't issued with a bayonet in the new flight and had to request one just before the passing out parade. It was rusty as hell and I had no time to polish it, the guy inspecting the parade stopped in front of me (for a chat I thought) but he just stared long and hard at my bayonet, then at me, then at the officer with him and walked on. Made my day!
Chaps there is a Facebook group - you tell them your arrival and departure dates and share memories etc lots of photos... *** RAF Swinderby Arrival & Departure Dates ***
This has brought back dam good memories of my pass out parade. March 18 1992 it was. Chucked it down with rain and yet we were still out there on the parade ground. The band struck up Hawaii Five-O as it rained, much to the amusement of us in the parade and we had Chipmunks as our fly past.
@@kmckinlay8070 You were not my Sargent through Swinderby were you?
@@kmckinlay8070 I had to ask because my sargeant had the same surname you see.
There in 75. 6 weeks of joy,
This brought back memories of my passing out parade in 1966. Nothing has changed except I seem to remember we held our rifles on our shoulders as we marched.
I spent years of my childhood at RAF Kinloss. 1955/60. I loved it there and still go back occasionally. The Army has now taken over Kinloss. No more RAF. Sad. The Stables bar used to be my primary school.
I passed out a week early at Swinderby (long story) so had to transfer flights during the last week. I wasn't issued with a bayonet in the new flight and had to request one just before the passing out parade. It was rusty as hell and I had no time to polish it, the guy inspecting the parade stopped in front of me (for a chat I thought) but he just stared long and hard at my bayonet, then at me, then at the officer with him and walked on. Made my day!
Chaps there is a Facebook group - you tell them your arrival and departure dates and share memories etc lots of photos...
*** RAF Swinderby Arrival & Departure Dates ***
I went to Kinloss and did nearly 12 years there before coming out the RAF 10 years ago
July1966 I had my passing out parade.
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