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Post by dpdouglas on Dec 18, 2005 22:48:54 GMT 12
Could somebody please inform me of what is actually needed to be an armorer in the RNZAF.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 18, 2005 22:52:25 GMT 12
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Post by Phil on Jan 23, 2006 18:12:17 GMT 12
Well that link pretty much sums it up, if you have any specific questions just aske me (I'm a current serving armourer at Ohakea).
If you click the link to the .pdf file at the bottom of that page you'll even see a photo of me (well a very small one) I'm the guy in the blue uniform reading a piece of paper next to the Maverick.
Funny story about that photo - It was taken at DJ2 time (when the RNZAF made quite a few of us redundant) to illustrate an article about the whole process. The piece of paper I am reading is actually a release letter telling me I'm no longer an armourer (I remustered to photographer).
And Ttey used it as a recruiting image!
Perhaps I'm the only one to see the irony in that.
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 23, 2006 18:19:07 GMT 12
Phil, did you once run the "RNZAF Gunnies" website?
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Post by phil on Jan 23, 2006 19:24:07 GMT 12
Thats right I did, but after I remustered to Photog it kind of died out a bit so I handed it all over to another guy. It is still running, although in a greatly modified way.
Back as an armourer now though.
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 23, 2006 19:30:38 GMT 12
Well, you very kindly sent me a couple of copies of the history of the RNZAF Air Combat Wing a few years ago, and I still owe you a beer or two for that! ;D
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Post by Calum on Jan 23, 2006 21:43:43 GMT 12
Could somebody please inform me of what is actually needed to be an armorer in the RNZAF. Be able to drink heaps of beer (tounge somewhat in cheek)  have to have a massive inferiority complex so you can call everyone else queer traders ;D be able to lift things ;D |
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 23, 2006 21:51:22 GMT 12
Not afraid of loud noises? ;D
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Post by pegazair on Feb 7, 2006 15:12:59 GMT 12
To be an Armourer in her majesty's service, you have have to be an average guy willing to do a hero's job.
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Post by shorty on Jun 8, 2008 22:45:06 GMT 12
we reckoned that Canberra armorers had to be hung like a stud horse, with the speed of a race horse, the strength of a draught horse, ...and the brains of a rocking horse
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 8, 2008 23:01:03 GMT 12
;D ;D ;D
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Post by skyman on Sept 4, 2013 15:54:50 GMT 12
If it weren't for Armourers the rest of you would just be members of a big flying club!
Al.
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