I’ve just seen rough plans for what our wing are planning to organise and the national stuff for the 75th anniversary year. What are you planning to do to celebrate?
I heard that the corps is going to swim the channel. They have been looking for volunteers.
I think the swimmers have already been sorted; we had one of our staff go to the trials and was successful.
What are peoples thoughts about the ‘torch of enlightenment’ being run around the country?
Will it be carrying the date of when gliding will resume for the ACO?
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Tsk, tsk, that’s reserved for the 100th anniversary celebrations! 
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I hear that there’s going to be an anniversary cake - I doubt that there’ll be enough for those outside handbrake house though…
Gieves! I’ll have that saucer of milk now.
Come on folks, let’s avoid the usual negative attitudes please. This is a thread designed to share positive work.
Consider wrist my slapped 
there isn’t any, and whatever there might be isn’t going to be shared with a bunch of no-marks who’ve managed to preside over the greatest loss of activities in the history of the ACO. even the f&%$ing Luftwaffe has less effect on flying than this bunch of lepers!
we’ll go away somewhere as a Sqn, we’ll do some AT, have a BBQ and a disco/karoke and enjoy ourselves - and we may even start a new twitterfeed #whatwedo-despiteHQAC’sbestefforts…
amusingly, as the 75th aniversary approaches, last month i heard an OC openly, and not entirely jokingly, talk about disafilliation…
Well, err, thanks for that. I think. Anyway, moving on from dross.
We’ll have a sqn do and leave it at that.
I’m sure we’ll have to drag along to some Wing do where standing around getting bored stupid will be the order of the day, they’ll trot out some RAF bod with loads of braid and scrambled egg who will say all the usual BS, but stick a reference to 75 years at some point. The Wing glitterati will disappear into a room for tiffin and everyone else will be left to their own devices, all thinking I could be doing something useful like watching paint dry rather than be here.
Speaking to a few of my compatriots recently the consensus was wondering how the organisation has got from 70 to 75 years, despite the incompentence of the incompetents at Deadloss Palace in Lincolnshire.
WTF swimming the channel has to do with the Air Cadets baffles me and those I’ve spoken to. What about something to do with flying … oh sorry I forgot myself.
We’re planning a buffet lunch in May at the squadron to which we will be inviting ex-cadets and staff, local dignitaries and local groups who we’ve supported/supported us over the years. We’ll also have a Sunday lunch for current sqn members in July.
We’ve already been told we’ve got a large parade, which will be as dull as ditchwater and only ‘celebrate’ being able to hide disinterest.
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We will be having an all wales parade in Cardiff 7 or 8 of May rings a bell.
I will be a flight commander again most likely as most don’t want to do the shouty bits in front of the cadets. You wouldn’t believe how many officers in my wing won’t or can’t stand in front of a flight and give the correct orders 
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Oh yes I would! Probably similar to my wing… lol
Shouty stuff at parades is for the youngsters in my book, personal development and all that.
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What that man said is very apt
Don’t know what you mean Papa November 
They’re probably the ones that no-one can remember ever appearing at a wing event
I’m holding a reunion for the 1941 ATC squadron based at my school - all the original elements are attending, who are now 3 x CCF RAF sections and an ATC squadron. So far seems to be going well.
We did decide (on the advice of the WWO) though that to avoid bad drill from officers we’d assign all the parade exec roles to cadets. Officers can watch from the stands…