Ex Mob

AH dang, If I were a Matlo, I'd be pitching myself for hire :/

I'm ex Pongo, also MT, Class 1 vehicle polisher, and class 2 broom operative.

I transferred after about 5 years, and then worked my way up from NAAFI loiterer to Civvi gradually over my last 3.

Ambulances? Was that during the Ambulance strikes? or for repat duties?

The closest I got was driving green goddesses... (In the latest round of strikes... I'm still reasonably young...)

Hived the conversation off to a separate thread to preserve the Telesales thread as I took us off piste! 

So was that RCT or Really Large Corps 

Applied for the RCT and RAF MT at the same time as both offices were next to each other. The RAF bloke said the food was better, but the Army bloke said they had better wagons, was a tough call! In the end the RAF came through first, which was 1987, in the days before drawdown and redundancies and still a choice of sunshine tours where the locals don't shoot at you.

Missed both Ambulance strikes, though plenty of oppo's had lots of stories and tales to tell. In the RAF you drove anything from staff cars, ambulances, coaches to artics, which could change daily. Then there was cushy stuff like aircraft refuelling which in reality meant sit and watch the telly and refuel a plane once every few hours.

At RAF Wittering near Stamford, just North of Peterborough and South of Grantham, there was a gap in the civvy ambulance network. As we had a regional med centre, we were hooked into the civvy network and used to cover 10 miles of the A1 and A47. Always guaranteed plenty of blue light jobs. Normally from minor shunts and panicking motorists.

Was (and still am a bit) lorry barmy. When based at Odiham, was on a cushy 2 days 2 nights 4 days off shift. So on our off days we all used to drive for Sainsburys as their depot was down the road. Great fun, better wagons, same faces and the £10 per hour wages made us feel like rock stars compared to the peanuts we were on  Happy days

Any other ex-mob lurking in the shadows?

Oh Steve.... 
The RCT has disbanded to the RLC long before I joined! (I'm mid 30's!), and, I most certainly wasn't in the RLC :-D Another Corps, but still a driver. I'd like to think we we're more refined... or drunk more refined drinks... I'm still undecided!

I was a scout does that count?  Would never be able to put up with ******* in the army

I was a space cadet - but thats a close as i got to signing up - its also actually where i first met Steve (awww)

Had every intention of joining up, but was rejected because of my colour blindness 

Think you have to be a certain kind of person to join up in any of the forces, you either have that in you or you don't.

Hats off to those that serve and protect us