TG3 Roll Call

[mad_collie]

Just thought I'd start this again, as I cant remember who is around.

Obviously - TMG, the JAFAD twins and a couple of others - but I know there are more lurking!

[MAINJAFAD]

Just thought I'd start this again, as I cant remember who is around.

the JAFAD twins


Jafad Twins????? Collie, I will have to disagree with you there, I have never looked anything like JAFAD666, who if he had a twin, that twin would look like the bad lad in Omen II (a boy with big 666 qualities).
:PDT_Xtremez_14:

[rugby then work]

I'm still here, had to start again though as i joined at the end of september.

[gray]

L Tech TC checking in. :PDT_Xtremez_27:

Gray

[Pot Tweeker]

L Tech TC... working in IT soon to be doing AF?

[The_last_of_TG3]

Present and correct saar

Been an AF most of the time spent a year as a geek but now an AF again shame it is in the Falklands.

[Unclebuck]

Just like RTW, still alive and kicking, L Tech AD back on site :PDT_Xtremez_30:

[dunbar1983]

Reporting for duty Sir, ive only been in 6 years so just a lowly EL Tech lol. Done Ground Radio and a 4 month det with 1ACC and now working In IT and living the dream, just waitng for a tour in a nice green tent now :PDT_Xtremez_30: CANT WAIT :PDT_Xtremez_35:

[IHateTCW]

Checking in one of the last JT's in this great dying trade .:PDT_Xtremez_37:
Or is it one of the first JT's in a weird new TG

[Yellowtechie]

Hi to IHateTCW, I've not seen another TG3 JT for years, I have heard that a few exist but thought that this must be multiple sitings of me. Have you not come off the latest board? Think I know who you are, might be wrong though. Hi to all others, where are you all? I'm currently in the Falklands but home unit is Coningsby (Typhoon).

[shettie]

Hey!!! Bloody Kids!!!! Where is "L Mech GR"??????

[mad_collie]

Hey!!! Bloody Kids!!!! Where is "L Mech GR"??????

There's no point in me adding it to the poll Shettie.

You'd only forget that you had voted before. :PDT_Xtremez_15:

[shettie]

There's no point in me adding it to the poll Shettie.

You'd only forget that you had voted before. :PDT_Xtremez_15:

It's my age! Now where did I leave my colostomy bag... :PDT_Xtremez_08:

[OK..Igiveup]

Was L tech GR really a trade?

I guess at Ground radar? I do remember L tech ST (or very similar cos thats what I went for but told no spaces- they should have told me the trade was disbanded-CIOs for you.)

Comms or death for me I'm afraid

[Cosmo]

L Mech GC.........

[Dancin_Dave]

I was an Eng mech AD once. I think. I started out on MAD 32 at Locking.
I have been various other things until I reached the dizzying height of jnco.
Still trade group 3 though. Not been brainwashed yet!

[theneverendingjug]

TG3 forever, or at least until they finally get me...

Done AF, done TCW, done Cyprus, done Rapier, now in IT. And I went up to two Dining In nights at Byron Heights - Does that count as done AD?

But I did start as Eng Mech El...

[Mazmann]

First post ever........... am still a L Tech AF I don't care what they say !!!!!

[wolfy]

Just been posted in thought I'd better report for duty as there is no ground radio sections around

[balado]

just a simple l mech tc eesf t-bar wallah

[101]

DTC 144 for my sins..... kinda makes the green spinny thing all worthwhile:PDT_Xtremez_19:

Oh well !

[wolfy]

Thought I'd better add that I was an L Tech AF but not a DE!

[Studley dangerfcuk]

El Mech for my sins then Eng Tech EL.

Studley :PDT_Xtremez_28:

[3Chordwonder]

Originally a TC. - the legendary DTC 143.

Got collared for the T101 last year....

Still not been knobbled for Assim !!!

[sp4rks]

L Mech TC now Eng Tech EL

MTC 55

[Silver Fox]

Can go further back than that,
L Mech GC, L Mech TC, L Tech TC, Eng Tech El
Left last year, its good to be out

[Nurse69]

Trooper, L Mech GC, L Mech TC, L Tech TC, Trooper, Med Asst, Med Admin, Registered Nurse

[Jenga]

Well I was a mighty DE TC (DTC128), and am now getting to that time in life where people are saying that they were born after I joined up
:PDT_Xtremez_09:... it's enough to turn a man to drink :PDT_Xtremez_30:

[almostaCIV]

Originally TC for me many years ago, they got me on the last TC to EL course, but not a chance this time around, that’s enough for me in this circus too many clowns in charge – at least out there if you call the boss a clown or something else, the worst they can do is fire you

[ZeroTolerence]

bit late but then i always am for those that no me. el tech tc checking in :)

[ScoobTech]

New to this site, Eng Tech El here, ex satcomm, squirrell, then rapier and back to squirrell. Been in 11 years now.

[crap_prop]

I was on DAD 120 and then DAD 122 as I was a bit of a biff at the ACR 430 (dont say a word) but still an AD at heart (even though I ahve been assimilated without having to visit dosford) not a corn flake promotion TC (any biters?) Several years on woosh bangs in N.yorks and then the Wing gggrrreeaatt!! and now IT, all those months of radar training really comes in handy when your copying and pasting a word doc. But still playing plenty of rugby and loving it even though I am getting no younger. Get the brews on Ta!

[Tacanman]

I was origanally a DE Ltech AF spent most of my life in Ground Radios or mobile Ground Radio with the wing Did a quick AD tour to the FI then instructing AF kit. Now heading back to the Falklands on another AD kit. (Why do I always get the long courses before going OOA?) I did the first brain removal to EL and then spent 3 weeks wasting time removing any brain I had left to make me only able to count to 4. Which is useful as its the time I now have left.

[Mad Pierre]

DE LTech TC. DTC 28. The class of July 82.

[Lux_deluxe]

Ex JAFAD checking in. DAD55 back in 1982 I did join. Never had to do the assimilation to Eng Tech EL as I was already working in a commsy environment lol. I was promoted to Chief Tech a little before the amalgamation to this odd TG4 thingummy - though I may have been better off refusing it as promotion seems unlikely with all the goings on these days, so I've resigned myself to 5 more years working in a totally non-TG4 area at Waddo - woohoo!! But again I haven't assimilated, but I'm working with TG2 guys at the mo, so it doesn't really matter to me. Currently sat in the wintery Falkands with days to do before returning to blighty - I have the T101 Q already but PMA, in their inifinite wisdom, put me in comms - ho hum. Me, the last Chief in TG4 - yeah baby, you bet.

[Firemagi]

Another TC here.. DTC 148.

Got assimilated back in 95 to one of those new fangled EL thingys and sent to TCW when they drew Portreath down, closely followed by me putting in for every transfer out going, how did i hate that place..

[T93]

TG3.....AD all the way. I know its been a long time (12/95) but what the f+ck are all these new trades. Who/what has been assimed into what?.

Now in Sunny :-// bavaria working on Eng support on UTRAN (3G) networks.....Lifes goooood.

[Pop Monkey]

Former AF JT. Spent most of my time in AD slots!! (4 daughters!) Finally getting to work on an airfield in Gib!

[techiebird335]

Originally an El Mech(T) then onto Eng Tech El when i was lucky enough to get my tapes.

Unfortunately now have been borg'd and TG4. Although i seem to have been quite jammy and didn't have to do the egg sucking course and manged to assimilate OOA. Think that was an achievement. ha ha::P:

[speccytechy]

Checking in one of the last JT's in this great dying trade .:PDT_Xtremez_37:
Or is it one of the first JT's in a weird new TG

L mech tc then eng tech el after fitters course now cis tech i think .

[Turtle]

Another L Tech TC checking in...........

[PD TC]

Once a TC, always a TC.

The Crème de la crème of TG4

You know its true!!!!

[T93-T101]

Started many years ago ('86) as an L tech AF on DAF 60. Went and worked at GRIS at Henlow, working in the factory wiring up Watchman Cabins with comms. Then to Germany working with the Harriers. Worked at the GRSC but now working on the T93 - thankfully nothing to do with computers!!

16 months to my 22!!! Thank God!

[Shanester]

Started of on MAD 35 in 91, then after various assim courses/ fitters course became a TG 4 cis tech, a trade that is going places, in my case straight to Basrah and the ERAS DET, only 6 weeks of this holiday left before I'm back to sunny Boulmer and a hole in the ground....I love this job!
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[Blindfire]

Hi all, new to this site, I was JAFAD on DAD76 - 1984 hehe - spent all my time on Rapier(I was lucky mind did my rapier course at BAe Stevenage - beats arborfield I think!!) - nearly all of it in Germany - what a time.
However looking back the only camp I was based at that is still open was Brize Norton(was on 19sqn raf regt there).
even spent a year with the army in dortmund only for them to shut that down too.

Obviously been out of touch with things - JT doesn't exist anymore?? that was great rank.:PDT_Xtremez_30:

[Shortie]

One of the last DE L Tech AF's to pass out of Locking back in 93 on DAF107A. The last course was DAF109 I think.

[kev825]

Back in the days of Apprentices, Techies and Supertechs there were also the grand and great, L Fitts, Ground Radar (GR) and Ground Comms (GC)
These turned into AD, AF (GR) and TC (GC).

L Fitt GR till I die.....................

[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

El Mech(T)>>Eng Tech EL (AD)>>CIS Tech>>ICT (Systems) Tech.

Will it ever end????

[(JR)]

Checking in. L Tech AD from poor old Locking. DAD46 and yes I was and stll am a just another F**cking DE. I'm Still in and only because of a morbid curiosity to see what happens next.

[Flossiefoo]

L Tech AF (DAF 95) only made it to Airfields on GRIS AF Flt tho'

Then Eng Tech EL thrown into the JAFAD world as a Linkie (ah easy life - dem was the days!).

Now masquerading (spell check pls!) as an ORACLE admin in the geek world of TG4 apart from a brief holiday to Byron Heights on the T101 (still the Cornish holiday and alcohol poisoning was a larf!).

Believe me the crappy bit of SQL they give you on assim is NOT enough!!!!!

[blueboy]

put myself down as Eng Tech El although thats not strictly true. joined as an ELM. consider myself to be a JAFAD. 3 AD tours, 1 AF, 1 TC, 2 AD OOAs (currently on my 2nd) and 1 AF OOA. I suppose I'm jack of all trades master of none!

[steveste]

L Fitt GC - remember them? (1967)

then L TECH GC or was it L FITT AF . . . or even L FITT AF(C) maybe

then . . oh, never mind, it's MISTER now.

[Notanop]

Could'nt resist adding to the thread....

Started MTC 35, fitters course FTC40....went well for a while and then turned into an EL working on Ground Radios. Took until 3 years ago to get back to doing TC work in very sunny Germany as a CISTech or ICT Tech or whatever the b***dy ell we're called now.

[MadFad]

LmechAd MAD 8 posted to Buchan for two years, was a naughty boy and posted to Rapier, didnt know what hit me spent the rest of my service with them, 48sqn, 19sqn, 54sqn, 15sqn,
LtechAD FAD26 best time ever, Locking, Weston-Super-Mud, scrumpy, like a dog with two d1cks.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
Does this make me a real JAFAD

[ary]

DAF 59. Passed the 22 in march but I seem to be the only one to see it through. Done TCW, Stornoway, Gibraltar & Falklands among many. Only 8 yrs to me pension

[Witchfinder]

Started life as "one of those DE's" on DR10 at Locking in '76, to become a L Fitt GR in '77, L Tech GR (for 1 month), L Tech AF(r), L Tech AF, Eng Tech EL. And I never asked for any changes.... Tours at Lyneham, Belize (4 times), Cranwell, Odiham, Gib, TCW X 2, GRSC,(N.Luff), 12SU Episkopi and finally at 1001 SU Rudloe Manor.

Now out of all this career chasing rubbish in 2001, happily working in a great job (most of the time) as a Mobile Sat Com Eng.

[bigfella]

LmechAd MAD 8 posted to Buchan for two years, was a naughty boy and posted to Rapier, didnt know what hit me spent the rest of my service with them, 48sqn, 19sqn, 54sqn, 15sqn,
LtechAD FAD26 best time ever, Locking, Weston-Super-Mud, scrumpy, like a dog with two d1cks.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
Does this make me a real JAFAD


And then some matey....

[501leg]

Greetings all just joined

demobbed in 2001 after Wing, Army then Wing again tours. Now working with a JAFAD (former Wing dissenter)

Ubique Loquimur

:PDT_Xtremez_32:

[Digzster]

OK, looking at the courses that have been listed on the thread, I can see me taking off my colostomy bag, pulling up one filled with sand and squeezing hard for the best contest in town....can anybody own up to beating DAD13 (1978)? Best to post soon as I'll forget that I was here in the first place!

[bigfella]

Jafad Twins????? Collie, I will have to disagree with you there, I have never looked anything like JAFAD666, who if he had a twin, that twin would look like the bad lad in Omen II (a boy with big 666 qualities).
:PDT_Xtremez_14:


Or a mad mexican cowboy ganster type. And you sir have a passing resemblence to Matt Lucas.

Hope that helps:PDT_Xtremez_14:

Bring on the fat jokes I heard em all.....

[Spammy2505]

TG3 L Tech TC for me..

I was also "one of those DE" Types.. DTC145 May 1992 til Aug 1993 at the seaside.

RIP RAF Locking!

Spamout:PDT_Xtremez_30:

[tellyons]

Was on DTC49

Very sad to see the demise of RAF Locking::(:

[Nurse69]

MC81 and FTC12 at Locking, hub of the universe. Lived down town on my Mechs course, too short for a quarter. Divorced and lived ashore in a flat above Cameo shop in The Broadway on my Fitters course;scrumpy, swimming and shagging. Oh the memories!

[GEP]

I was L Tech TC DTC44.
TCW 11 12 81SUs and JCUFI. I left back on the last free cash and run. Believe me when you get out, the training you got takes you places and gets you good jobs.

My RAF training along with civilian pre employment course got me a Bachelor's Degree certificate when I moved to the States. Try the phone companies when you get out, I went straight to Vodafone which was more like the military than the RAF ever was!


:PDT_Xtremez_44:

[Squittervolts]

L Tech AF & proud. Then Eng Tech EL and now a.............. what are we these days?
Out of the loop now & not missing it, hiding in the deepest darkest recesses of the trade.

[Squittervolts]

Apparently, so I am now reliably informed, I am a:

Information and Communication Technology (systems) Technician.

Wow, that felt good. Identity at last known I can sleep easy tonight.

stfu

DAF 69 - now there's a course number.

[mad_collie]

Apparently, so I am now reliably informed, I am a:

Information and Communication Technology (systems) Technician.

Wow, that felt good. Identity at last known I can sleep easy tonight.

stfu

DAF 69 - now there's a course number.

The whole lot of them were gay, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't expect much more from a bunch of AFs I suppose.:PDT_Xtremez_15:

[PVRisthefuture]

The whole lot of them were gay, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't expect much more from a bunch of AFs I suppose.:PDT_Xtremez_15:

Quite right, same for AD's too. Everyone knows the best techs were TC's. End of.

[The Masked Geek]

Quite right, same for AD's too. Everyone knows the best techs were TC's. End of.


Ministry of the bleeding obvious there. :PDT_Xtremez_30:

[Squittervolts]

The whole lot of them were gay, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't expect much more from a bunch of AFs I suppose.:PDT_Xtremez_15:


Actually, I only recall 1/2 of the course being gay. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[crap_prop]

TC's - GAY
AF's - GAY
AD's that never worked on rapier or bloodhound - GAY
Anyone who does'nt play rugby - GAY
Anyone who does'nt play in the front row - proper GAY

Nuff said.

[3Chordwonder]

Anyone with the initials JY - definately gay !

[PVRisthefuture]

Actually, I only recall 1/2 of the course being gay. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Sounds like you have something to tell us... do go on....

[XTC]

Once a TC always a TC. DTC46 back in 83 for me, had numerous changes and waiting for the new ICT trade to come along!!:PDT_Xtremez_25:

[Mug?]

Quote:
Originally Posted by mad_collie
The whole lot of them were gay, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't expect much more from a bunch of AFs I suppose.


Actually, I only recall 1/2 of the course being gay. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

the other half must have been mech'ed out then making them worse than gay!

[GEP]

Off Topic
XTC was that the course Tom howley was placed back onto after blowing up the RACAL transmitter by earthing the Buzz bar when it was live?