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Alistair Gilbert from Kettering wrote on January 10, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Hello, I left HMS Eagle in 1968 and was given a posting to somewhere mysterious called RAF Watton?? No one in the Navy knew anything about it so I arrived Sunday evening to report at 0800 the next day. I spent a night in the guardroom where the lads looked after me and gave me an idea where to report next morning. Of course I was on 360 sqdn. Once settled in I was delighted to find I was treated as a Cpl Engine Fitter. In the Navy we did the combined trade of Airframes/Engines. This allowed me to run the Canberra engines which we weren't allowed to do in the Navy as that was a senior rates job. We weren't there long as the sqdn moved to Cottesmore app 6 mths later. I left in 1970. Fun times seeing the other side of military aircraft and the Brylcream boys lol
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