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Colin Hall
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Quoting: Mike Pass
A bit anal there, Colin!
The charts (DTD-Days to do or Grip sheet in the RAF) were just a bit of fun and as I recall, were generally only used for an airman’s first, unaccompanied overseas tour.
Most of these were chosen to ’beat’ into said erk the fact that life is not a bowl of cherries. That said, all of those tours, Gan, Bahrain, Sharjah, Masirah etc could all be turned into one big holiday with the diversion of the odd bit of work every so often.

I do not remember anyone making a chart because they were so angry about being there!!

Well, you’re right there Mike...the only thing missing from that list of camps were people in red coats singing " Hi-De-Hi, Hi-De-Ho Hi-De-Hi, Hi-De-Ho".

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20/01/2012 22:21:46

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I volunteered to join the R.A.F. for one reason only. I was going to be called up National Service and as my brother was already in the Mob and our Birthdays were both on the 13Th. December if i joined earlier and got my Square bashing out of the way he could then claim me to his Unit. At the time he was stationed 9 miles from home and coming home every night.
If this had not been the case i would never had contemplated joining up. I was 17, working in a Tailoring factory with dozens of girls, getting decent spending money, dinner on the table when i came through the door, Mother seeing to all my washing and ironing. Why on earth would i want to change that??. As it turned out after square bashing was over i took to the life with no regrets.
Perhaps long serving volunteers don’t understand is that many National Servicemen hated the life, whatever the Service, they had been uprooted from home life, in some cases they were married, good careers etc.
I met more than a few who had calenders on the inside of their lockers and ticked off each day towards demob.

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21/01/2012 10:56:14

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Chuff charts.

Like Mike, I saw the Chuff chart as a bit of fun. I was on Gan 74-75 which was about the second last tour before closure. On Gan, when you had completed half of your tour, you threw a " humpers" party and had a few beers and a bit of scran. I remember one of the entries on the chart being " must come off Amstel and go back on Charlies ". I my case, contrary to Colin’s idea of a holiday camp, i worked on Refuellers, Cranes, Tugs etc and spent the first six months getting the Refuellers back in shape as my predecessor had been short toured due to a family problem. I finished my normal shift and went back after lunch until dinner. It was still a great unique type of tour however and I wouldn’t have missed it .

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21/01/2012 11:54:34

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Note to self:

"Any post suggesting irony or humour is to include the words "This is humour" by way of an explanation".

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21/01/2012 12:26:21

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Better still, Colin, add a

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for the benefit of those who cannot read.

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