The only failure in life

[Cliff Rogers]

is the failure to participate.

[Groggy]

is the failure to participate.

I like it!

Hey Cliff, did I mention I am working back where we trained? Same building 30 years on!

[Cliff Rogers]

Struth.... which block?:eek:

Pete, who works for me just accepted a job with Boeing doing what he did at supcom last century.

He did 20 years & has been out for about 17 or 18.

[Iain]

I've lost touch, SupCom still exist in the same place?

[bennylaird]

Mainly now in the old Rads building at Laverton as far as I know.

(This post is in no way intended to cause offence and if it in anyway does please advise me and I will delete it ASAP.)

[Iain]

Mainly now in the old Rads building at Laverton as far as I know.

(This post is in no way intended to cause offence and if it in anyway does please advise me and I will delete it ASAP.)

My first home in Melbourne, the old red brick ones then the three level ones opposite, they were new then and fights errupted as to who was going.

[bennylaird]

I started in the old two story weatherboard ones near the water towers. No heating and I would go to bed early just to stay warm. Best thing was no inspection hence an easy panic night. Moved to 421 after that, the 3 story ones.

(This post is in no way intended to cause offence and if it in anyway does please advise me and I will delete it ASAP.)

[Stuart]

That at the Laverton RAAF base? If it is, I stayed there as well when posted to the ANZAC ship project. 421 sounds familiar - when there wasn't enough room in the wardroom.

[Iain]

Panic NIght, I had forgotten about them, got done for not having flippers under the bed with other footwear by 'The Rabbit' (WOD White).
Stuart, was that before your Commission?

[bennylaird]

Yes, 421 was the one closest to the Railway line. So you would have then gone to TUASSC each day? I taught Combat Systems and FCS there till it moved to the west.

(again no offence intended.)

[bennylaird]

Flipper under the bed, no wonder. You could have bought down the whole fabric of the defence of our nation, Shame.

(Opps ok offensive, just working out how to delete this.)

[Stuart]

Mustn't have been 421 that I stayed in then - from memory it was close the the gym.

I did a lot of courses down at Williamstown - all the marine engineering ones for the ANZAC.

Ended up being the reason I now live in Melbourne and not in NZ - came over after leaving the NZ Navy to see if I could get a job building the things (I love heavy engineering). Worked there for a while working for SKM, but after a year realised that I never wanted to work for Tenix - cowboys. Turned down a $70k job with them when offered and everything.

It was a fun time training for the ANZACs- on base movies, gym etc, working on ANZACs during the day, diving most weekends on the wrecks in the bay.

[Iain]

diving most weekends on the wrecks in the bay.

And one weekend a Winjeel overshot the runway and went for a swim, the CO went home and got his tinny and pulled out the pilot and student, where was the crashboat, down Geelong way diving for crays.
Got a fairly severe bum kicking for that, and had to donate all our crays to the officers mess, nothing more was ever said.

[Stuart]

And did we get a good feed that night! Wardroom (navy) = Officers Mess (Airforce)

[bennylaird]

Sounds like the old Apprentice block or one of the newer? blocks. I'm a Tenix cowboy now, still Anzac training and Protector training. You would know some of the engineering instructors, one works here with me and is also a member of the forum, pm me if you want to know who.

(Offensive? I'll delete it if it is.)