I have only gone and done it.
April 16, 2009
My training is over; it has been one hell of a journey and this is me at my passing out. It's been punishing at times but also the most fun and excitement I have ever had. Ladies, Gentleman and Mum, I am now a fully fledged member of the Royal Air Force.
I have been in a Chinook!
April 10, 2009
Just been in a Chinook! We flew in it to complete our three day
battle scenario in which our instructors were the enemy and they
were fierce. I'll never forget the feeling of flying high over the countryside before landing right into the exercise. What a day, too tired to write any more.
When you are in the RAF you have to fly.
April 6, 2009
Just got back from a skydiving break in Spain. I have never done it before and within a few days we were giving formations a go. Looking forward to showing off the films of my jumps to everyone when I’m back on base, they’ll never believe I did it!
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On my way to meet a Typhoon...
March 31, 2009
I'm going to Cosford in a few weeks- I'll work on the specialist stuff so I can then start working on an active airfield doing anything from maintaining radars to controlling the ground support systems for a Typhoon aircraft. Pretty good aren't they?
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The RAF. It's a gas
March 27, 2009
The next three weeks are very different! We’re now in Regiment
training learning how to deal with CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nucleur) warfare and doing proper battle exercises. Had a good first day with CBRN. We had to learn to get our respirators on within nine seconds. You really want to get this right when you're out on manoeuvres.
White water RAFting
March 26, 2009
Weekend in the Welsh mountains doing a load of team exercises but by far the best laugh was the RAFting (sorry). Some of the gang reckoned they felt the adrenaline rush. To be honest I can’t feel anything now, I’m still numb with cold.
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What better way to relax and unwind?
March 21, 2009
It took me all of ten minutes to sign up for the Rugby team once I had arrived. In the warm up game I have to say I got a little too into it and ended trying to run non-stop for the full eighty minutes. Luckily I didn’t get carried away and sign up for any of the other teams, wouldn’t have been much use to them after today.
From the top to the bottom
March 5, 2009
Last week I was half way up a mountain tomorrow I will be brought back down to earth with my first day at Halton where boys become men or at least in my case an ICT specialist.
