I don't know anyone on here but I feel I do as we experienced the same.All good times, some sad.

RAF regulation moustache.

I served from 1971 to 1987 when men were men and women were women. Ah the good old days not like now where airmen dont shave and have tattoo`s all over their bodies and there is nolonger any respect for the uniform 😔and now they get promoted just for licking arse and not for how good you are in your job.😌

So this is just some prick showing us his fckn stupid pics.What a fckn poser.

ATC for three years, followed by RAF from 1968 to 1974. Crawled all over and all through some really great aircraft, got to know all about all those cleverly-conceived systems. It set me up for life.

This is great and brings back lots of memories. I joined in 85 went through swinderby, then st athan, then Cranwell, then Valley and then leeming. 12 years. Great times, miss it a lot..

Awww. Nik you sound fabulous! Old bird here from the US (Las Vegas). ❤

Joined 1964 aged fifteen, left in 1990. Superb tribute to a different world.

bring your shops to My country of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

I was at Hereford in 75. Remember The Travellers Rest.

Wunderschön 💖💖😍😍🐻🐻🦌🦌🎄🎄🎀🎀🎇🎇✨✨🎠🎠🎵🎵🎶🎶

Joined 74 Swinderby, 6 weeks training, week at Uxbridge for Remembrance Parade at Royal Albert Hall....then Kinloss for type training and posted to St Mawgan......all gone now.....happy memories of all....

I was stage front so must have been standing next to you! Or slightly to the left!

Wow, he still sounds great!

The polar bears --- so cute. What a nice display.

'70 to '75 Swinderby/Cosford/Hendon/Muharraq/Lyneham/Cyprus (Det)/Gan/Rudloe Manor... thank you for the great memories.... and for any ex Gannites out there..... Siggie Siggie Siggie !!!!!

Did my basic six weeks training at swinderby in sept 1975

Swinderby Aug 85 (supplier) then off to Hereford before heading to Kinloss Great times

Great video. Does anyone know the name of the song?

Raf were better treated than the other services. Army was always treated as poor cousin.Less for rations poorer accommodation but definitely the most disciplined.

Joined 71-94 and left on redundancy. Never be the same again.❤

I absolutely loved this, thank you. I've a box full off my own similar photos from 1984-1994. After a laid-back tour overseas I got chucked back to Wotashame, but fortunately pulled the Bawdsey det. Bawdsey was simply fab, what a place. I lived in the biggest room in the White Tower, bigger than my six-man room at Hendon . . . we used to party in it. Just when I was up for back-to-Wotashame, I got promoted with orders for Coltishall. Coltishall was a serious busy frontline station, granted not QRA, but an absolute breath of overseas fresh air. Easiest going, best socially equipped and most fun station in the UK I've no doubt whatsoever. Loved my time there and realised it probably couldn't be bettered in the UK so I made it my last station. I don't regret an RAF minute of any of it and, yes, some of was the better days of my life.

A82****1 Supplier. Swinderby for 6 weeks from Feb 83, then on to trade training at Hereford for 10 weeks. Posted to Wittering. Total service years 1983 - 1989. God, I miss those times

1:50 nice poster on the wall 😊

Yep. Thats exactly what it was like. Great pics

15 flight number 3 squadron RAF Swinderby November 1988 …. Sgt Smith , Cpl Kenny …. Good fellas . I was 17 and it was possible to do a lot of underage drinking then especially on the camp . Me and my mate Huw Davis were on a charge and washing dishes in the mess ….. came back to the block pissed from all the half finished drinks . Happy days …… demolished now .

This just reminded me of what being an airman was all about. God I loved it and now miss it 😢 what great fun an Great friends and great days. You can't take away my memories 😊 Joined 1ST April 75 12flt Cpl Smith😂

I was at Swinderby as permanent staff Jul 80-May 83. Noticed a picture of my old mate Paul Newman (1.03) enjoying a pint, he sadly passed away Jan 90 while working at RAF Bruggen. Seemed to recognise a few faces, thanks for posting this and bringing back many happy memories...

July 78

I joined in February 1976 and was in Cheshire block. No air experience flight due to u/s aircraft and no Vulcan flypast due to no availability. Served as Air Comms fitter until 1997 then rejoined in 2017 aged 59 as a VeRR at Lossiemouth until I reached 65 and final demob. Shaped my whole life for the better.

Wow - amazing memories xxx

My era too. I joined Dec 79. Being in the cadets beforehand meant that I ended up wearing that blue uniform for 45 years. We were all so young then, just kids, now I’m nearly 63. Silly little things bring back the most memories, the room lockers and beds and those white over bed reading lights. Most of the places I served as a RADAR tech are gone now. Swinderby, Locking, Benbecula, Buchan, Neatishead, all gone. Best years of my life though and experiences the kids of today will never experience or understand, even those in the forces. I still have mates, real mates, I met up with from the very day in Dec 79 that I joined. I’ll have them until one of us dies. Until then we’ll always cover each others backs. Cheers

6 weeks at that holiday Camp called Swinderby, Then off to Catterick to be properly Beasted, Per Ardua

Hangers but no runway, a lot of wooden huts.

I was in the block next to the wrafs

I was stores trade training march to May 6.

Hereford???.

Thank you. We had the best times x

Joined in 1957, out in 1971, so much to enjoy. First aqualung diving in Canada, Goose Air Base, skidooing and salmon fishing. Dive expeditions to Gibraltar and Libya before Gaddafi, Go Karting on airfield at week ends. It's what you make of it.

Very poignant. I was never in any of the armed forces. Just escaped national service. Many years later I was a flight instructor, a prestigious outfit just ourtside of Oxford. We had many guys working as instructors who had served in the RAF. Our students passed through in discreet batches of about sixteen at a time known as courses. An Instrucor would typically have four students assigned. Young men and women are young men and women the world over, I always felt the bonding which inevitably took place was beyond value.

I was at Swinderby in 1978 as a new recruit and god does this bring back many memories. My life strted here in the RAF and then i went to RAF Cosford for Weopon mech training amw course cant remember the course number the on to Lossiemouth god what a shit hole lol. Then to RAF Gibraltar . Great to see this stuff . A CPL monagan was ther at that time a total terror but funny . We all should arrage a get togeather for that year before its to late .

I recognise Bawdsey and Wattisham in amongst that lot.

76 to 88. This video hits you in the chest after all these years. Fantastic tribute to a time you never forget.

Impressive collection, I served 79-2008. A great piss up tbh. Your pictures captures it all great.

1960 Cosford Boy Entrant. First posting was Swinderby, then Gan, followed by Thorney Island, Steamer Point, long detachment to Majunga back to UK and Odiham, then like so many gave away my career over a bit of skirt that didn't last 5 minutes. That's life. 😢

I recognised Bawdsey and obviously Swinderby. Was that a young Dave Peters in there? He was an Airframes & Engines Mech on Phantoms and then Chinooks.

If only we had iPhones in the early 80s, xx

I joined the RAF in 1983, can totally relate to this vid.xx

Things used to be so much happier and simpler back then.

Scarf YTS block. Familiar to me 😊