Parachuting RAF Cooks

[SOSL]

Why Bother

Thanks for your link AR, very interesting, but why bother?

This thread had been quiet for more than 2 years which probably means most posters seem to have thought "well done to Messrs Hanford and Fox".

The walt you refer to has been outed on so many other threads and forums and in national and local press.

He has nothing to do with these guys who generously gave away free meals.

You could have started a new thread but it wouldn't have had much to do with military aviation and it wouldn't have attracted much response because it had been done to death elsewhere. (for the more intelligent readers - yes I do see the irony but I'm slightly annoyed)

SOS L

[NutLoose]

Shy - shame on you! I found the meals dished up in the field, both in the UK and Germany, were fantastic. Nothing like the smell of frying bacon when landing at 0600 after a couple of hours in then air.

We (in RAFG) were lucky in that they had fresh rats to work with. The AAC only had compo - joint detachments found all the AAC bods queing for 'our' meals.

Even better was having a Jengo or Sengo that couldn't eat pork because of their religions............ so as we tucked in, and people often ate theirs too, they sat and starved

[SOSL]

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[ShyTorque]

Shy - shame on you! I found the meals dished up in the field, both in the UK and Germany, were fantastic. Nothing like the smell of frying bacon when landing at 0600 after a couple of hours in then air.
We (in RAFG) were lucky in that they had fresh rats to work with. The AAC only had compo - joint detachments found all the AAC bods queing for 'our' meals.

Nothing to do with RAFG, I was rather thinking of the ones at a Welsh base who gave myself and my squadron colleague a debilitating cocktail of dysentry inducing bugs to eat. I collapsed with severe stomach cramps on the walk out to the aircraft an hour later....my colleague never left the crewroom. The docs got involved and traced the problem to lunch - both of us had eaten the same thing in the OM.

Never ate rats though. I used to throw stuff at them in the hay barns on exercise.

[ZH875]

RAF Cooks AKA Fitters & Turners



They fit the food into pans and turn it into ****e.

[RedhillPhil]

Perhaps by "parachuted in" he meant he was transported there quickly. We do read from time to time of wannabee M.P.s geting parachuted into safe seats.

[Secret1]

Perhaps the cook was parachute trained, like many other 'non-flyers', and had been based at Akrotiri back in the good ole days, when there was a capability to drop whatever you were doing in the office, workshop, mess, gymnasium, etc, and collect parachute, board C130 or whatever a/c was available, and some time later jump out over the Med and perform air-sea-rescue of pax/crew from ditched aircraft.

[Airborne Aircrew]

In the late 70's and early 80's there were at least two cooks I can remember clearly that were parachute trained and had completed per-para on the Sqn. strength of II Sqn. One was a huge black lad who's name escapes me and another was a lad called Wayne. Both jumped with us every time we jumped and marched where we did. Both were functional cooks too...