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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 16:26:14 GMT 12
Just checking out their website regarding my old trade. They get $35k on recruit cse and post that move to $42k, not much less than when I got out as a 12 year SGT.
And it looks like you ask to join up, they say yes then you have to do your basic engineering cse before doing recruit cse etc.
yay no bed backs or marching on basic engineering anymore.
Someone said there wern't any bed pack on rcruit cse anymore nor any brass window latches etc.
Man have they gone soft or what. Next thing you will be able to drink and bring a shelia home after town, might be a bit too much in an open dorm, or have they got single rooms now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2012 17:50:50 GMT 12
Whenuapai's barracks are single room haha
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 18:19:05 GMT 12
So you join up at Whenuapai now ? I don't think so.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2012 18:57:26 GMT 12
I know you don't. Was just saying that they were, but I suppose you already knew that. :/
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Post by ryand on Aug 30, 2012 19:21:51 GMT 12
Re the recruit course they do a course through NMIT before hand which if they pass they then go on to recruit course. Still a civi until they pass the course. Upon entering the RNZAF they also re-imburse for the cost of the basic engineering course.
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Post by expatkiwi on Aug 30, 2012 20:41:04 GMT 12
Good Lord, they have gone soft! I was in R6/82 and things then were rather more "tight".
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 20:57:31 GMT 12
"back in my day", spoken in that certain language, grog was hidden in the hedge beside the barracks, sex was in the empty barrack block, and that was only in the 10 minutes spare we had each day if we wern't cleaning, polishing, marching, getting yelled at, polishing, marching, etc etc Damm sure the canteen at Woodbourne had the NZ sales each week for brasso and nugget.
plus every few months were sold out of shaving foam.
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Post by jonesy on Aug 30, 2012 21:28:54 GMT 12
I was on R3/87, and things were pretty tight then too. Still getting yelled at (I think was on the cusp of that sort of thing was changing...), still had bedpacks (tried to explain to the kids what they were, and their importance, to no avail..) And still had SLR's! None of those namby pamby plastic guns for us, oh no, laddie....
PS anyone have a photo of a bedpack, just for old time's sake?
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Post by phil82 on Aug 30, 2012 21:30:21 GMT 12
J Next thing you will be able to drink and bring a shelia home after town, I never found that a problem! It took a bit of ingenuity of course!
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 21:37:18 GMT 12
PS anyone have a photo of a bedpack, just for old time's sake? have to check some old photo albums, pretty sure, will check tomorrow,
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Post by phil82 on Aug 30, 2012 21:54:50 GMT 12
Here you go Jonesy! Feel better do you?
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 22:04:23 GMT 12
I saw that on google too. looks like it was taken a bit before most of our times. trying to make out what is wriiten on that sign on the other building.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 30, 2012 22:12:11 GMT 12
Still getting yelled at (I think was on the cusp of that sort of thing was changing...), I was on R1/89 and we still got yelled at. At least one cadet got booted in the crotch! Here's a wartime one, cropped from a Air Force Museum of New Zealand photo
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Post by phil82 on Aug 30, 2012 22:12:15 GMT 12
It's Halton in the 70s apparently. Sign says "Learoyd" accommodation block.
I doubt many RNZAF bed packs were as neat as that one. A posed shot I would say!
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Post by ox on Aug 30, 2012 22:12:47 GMT 12
I wouldn't get out of bed for $135k, let alone $35k - is that even legal?
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 22:16:06 GMT 12
"thats a mess lad, you call that a bed pack" as it is thrown across the room. they are slightly different in blanket/sheet arrangement to what i remember. plus we had to be able to bounce a 5cent piece of our tight counterpane.
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Post by phil82 on Aug 30, 2012 22:19:47 GMT 12
Five cents? Decimal coinage? Gosh you are young. Pennies were much heavier!
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 22:26:38 GMT 12
here we go, here we go.......
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Post by beagle on Aug 30, 2012 22:27:23 GMT 12
take it a pint at the bar was a thrupence
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Post by lesterpk on Aug 31, 2012 0:04:55 GMT 12
Those bedpacks are shocking, obviously a lack of spare coat hangars around. I had a few in mine to keep everything straight. Also managed to score extra sheets a few weeks in, and it was summer so the bedpack stayed made for pretty much the entire course.
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