Air Training Corps - where I learned to dis and mantle a Browning machine gun.
Terriers - Robin Hood Foresters RE where I passed my motor bike test.
Merchant Navy - which gave me the start to seeing the world and membership of the Legion. Quite right too considering the apalling numbers who lost their lives in WW2 without even the chance to shoot back.
I hear they let anyone in now
Thread resurrected for the benefit of Hairygorilla and with acknowledgement to Bones and because I missed it first time round
Think i may have worked with Rikki as i was a â â â â â â too from 1982-85âŚ
Great daysâŚ!!!
Driving artics now rather than loading aircraftâŚ
When I was at JHSU we were split between Rhine Barracks and RAF Odiham. I left in late 82
20+ years have faded the memory and names etc are hard to remember.
If you make it to the next post xmas drinky session we will probably be able to remind each other of names and faces !!
Will send you a PM when I have time with some recollections
I apologise if I ever offended ex -servicemen, or if any are on here, serving members of the services, the thread in question got rather heated and I got rather irate.
We were called âHookersâ because our job was to prepare landrovers / tanks / supplies for attaching to thew underside of helicoptersâŚ
The slings and nets were attached to hooks on the underside of the aircraftâŚ
Thereby earning us the nickname âHookersââŚ
It became such a common term that we used it as our radio callsign when out on Exercise or away anywhere in the worldâŚ!!!
Here is a picâŚ
To attach the load, you have to stand on it and the helicopter has to hover over you low enough for the load to be attachedâŚ
Even nowadays, safety helmets are the only items of headgear to be wornâŚ!!!
The downdraught caused by the rotor blades can exceed 50mph if my memory is correctâŚ
Corrugated tin sheets have been picked up by the downwash and thrown across fieldsâŚEven freightliner containers have been blown over. These weigh 2,200kgs empty !!!
We were called âHookersâ because our job was to prepare landrovers / tanks / supplies for attaching to thew underside of helicoptersâŚ
The slings and nets were attached to hooks on the underside of the aircraftâŚ
Thereby earning us the nickname âHookersââŚ
It became such a common term that we used it as our radio callsign when out on Exercise or away anywhere in the worldâŚ!!!
Here is a picâŚ
To attach the load, you have to stand on it and the helicopter has to hover over you low enough for the load to be attachedâŚ
Bear in mind the Chinook is 13tons too !!!
Logisics Loader,i know what the job involved,it was a joke.
Ex REME Reccy Mech. Joined ''65 left '77. Loved most of it and have never had the same good mates in civvy st as in the Army. Met loads of plebs( Ruperts mostly) but managed to ignore them. Served in Aden, Bahrain, Germany, 3 Op Banner tours ( Ireland). Those of you in the know will realise where and why the name âZuluwarriorâ comes from. God bless all us ex forces, whoever you are.
Think i may have worked with Rikki as i was a â â â â â â too from 1982-85âŚ
Great daysâŚ!!!
Driving artics now rather than loading aircraftâŚ
When I was at JHSU we were split between Rhine Barracks and RAF Odiham. I left in late 82
20+ years have faded the memory and names etc are hard to remember.
If you make it to the next post xmas drinky session we will probably be able to remind each other of names and faces !!
Will send you a PM when I have time with some recollections
canât remember the names, but worked with your lot from 81 to 84. I was 27 lsg regt in Aldershot at the time, RHQ ran the radio store, your radio ops came under our wing for some reason, so we spent some time at Odiham and your lads at Buller, I left the Army in 86 from Bulford camp, but go to reunions every year and run a website involved in reuniting RCT lads who served in Belize (see sig)
Another ex scalie here, did 13yrs then the army gave me a large sum of money to leave (redundancy 1994) thankyou very much!!! Living back out in Germany, Paderborn to be exact. My wife is a nurse for the forces, and for what i have seen and heard the plebs are still in the army, however i am presently on a career break from ASDA as an LGV driver and as most of you will have probally witnessed there are plebs worrking there as well. As in most jobs be it forces or civilian you get the good and the bad.
Please do tell we are listening. 
