Satisfying job

New I should have joined Air Force. I was a JSMEL and rock climbing instructor so I got to do loads of adventure training for free. The only thing was it was bloody hard work at times. I was “volunteered” once to take different groups of Irish Rangers out hill walking for 3 weeks around Gairloch head. 6 days a week between 14 and 17 miles a day. It was the same route each day but I let them map read!!! Yep, they were that bad.
 
D Walker said:
We lived in SA for 5 years but unfortunately never got to travel around that much.
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Fabulous! Where did you live?
I spent my childhood (age 1 to 18) in SA before my parents dragged me back to the UK, kicking and screaming(!) in 1991
 
Froddy said:
Fabulous! Where did you live?
I spent my childhood (age 1 to 18) in SA before my parents dragged me back to the UK, kicking and screaming(!) in 1991
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12-17.5!! I dragged myself back in 1985. We lived in a place called Secunda in Transvaal. Basically a town built to house workforce for the petro chemical plant.
 
D Walker said:
12-17.5!! I dragged myself back in 1985. We lived in a place called Secunda in Transvaal. Basically a town built to house workforce for the petro chemical plant.
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Wow so we were there at the same time! I wasn't far away from you, as we were in Rivonia (JHB) from 1979 to 1991.

Such a special country - we are blessed to have experienced it ...
 
Froddy said:
Wow so we were there at the same time! I wasn't far away from you, as we were in Rivonia (JHB) from 1979 to 1991.

Such a special country - we are blessed to have experienced it ...
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Yep. As I’m older now I have realised it really was a great place to spend my teens.
 
midlifecrisis said:
You can tell he was an orrificer (but no gentleman) the air force paid for me to go surfing in Newquay for a week.
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Dont get me started on forces money waste on Jollies , for around 5/6 years on the trot i used to meet up with RAF , Army and Navy bob sleigh teams in Igls in Austria , great laugh though , and got to do many absolutely stupid bizzare antics , like riding down the bob sleigh run on bin liners at 3 in the morning , with i might add Prince Albert of Monaco , game guy as well
 
Froddy said:
Wow so we were there at the same time! I wasn't far away from you, as we were in Rivonia (JHB) from 1979 to 1991.

Such a special country - we are blessed to have experienced it ...
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I'll be back in JoBurg in a few weeks soon as i see a slight uplift in retsrictions , then looks like i will be needed back in south sudan to kick things back off off a bit ,
 
lozcb said:
Dont get me started on forces money waste on Jollies , for around 5/6 years on the trot i used to meet up with RAF , Army and Navy bob sleigh teams in Igls in Austria , great laugh though , and got to do many absolutely stupid bizzare antics , like riding down the bob sleigh run on bin liners at 3 in the morning , with i might add Prince Albert of Monaco , game guy as well
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I wouldn't say money wasted, we had good team building exercises. My biggest regret is not learning to ski with the AAC when I was detached to them in the mid-90's. Their colonel was a big snowboarding nut. A couple of the guys are still ski instructors today.
 
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