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horse show was wicked and it snowed in are tents woo so funny

Wow what an amazing week i had in germany. I would diffently recommend it to other cdts. Hope you all had fun on the sqn camp in cannock. Seen the bear video just a little confused but im sure it will make sense. il be back in on tuesday.wooohooo

Well done to every 1 who went on camp you all did brill and were all out standing but even better to the cadets who were afraid of heights and atempted to get over your fear well done to all ....... but the thanks go to all the staff and the bigiest thanks to AWO Docker who orginised everything for us all. ...... but before i go just like to say YOU HAVE GOT THAT LOVEING FEELING thanks for making it a great weekend.

Thanks for the guys who went flying on saturday 15/09/07 at 8aef. You all was extremely well behaved. I hope you had a good time in the air! Thanks again. Shane ( Flight Staff Cadet 8AEF)

As a Family support worker, finding activities for challenging children to join in is a very difficult part of my job, however with this wonderful user friendly site it is easy to show the kids exactly the sort of things thety will be getting up to, what they can learn, and more importantly what they can achieve with alittle hard work. well done for putting such a good site together

wow helloooh!! feel like a bit of an intruder leavin a message but just poppin into say hello to all u guys. u hav an ace site, luvin the banana vid lol. any1 who went to RAF saint mawgan tis pasty ere wishin u all well!! hope to see you all agen tres soon!! luv n jellytots xx

RAF St Mawgan was a great camp, everyone was a great laf. feels boring to be back.

Camp report and video link now on front page

yeh well done everyone who went gud weather but too early !!!

woo hoo wat another great day with the cdts. The airshow was great and the pilots doing the displays. Shame there was no harriers though.

yea it was a shame austin lol it was hot as well it was verry hot and it was great fun i want to go again next year but not as early!!!!!

well done to everyone on wing traing hope everyone had fun i did!

Welldone 2 every1 @ nesscliffe and for every who participated :)

:) and i enjoyed rock climbing :)

yeh well done everyone esspesially the orientirers dont know how u did it !!

well done to every 1 who entered a comp we all had good fun and well done austin on the run it was hard but we done it and well done to the med team and the drill was ace.

well done everyone on wing training.
yeah page 6 of the shropshire star.
hope every1 had a great time!

well done to every one for this weekend at nescliff

Well done every1 what a great weekend. Page 6 shropshire star of all the sqn's there ares makes it into the paper how cool. Anyways it cmes once a year so lets do better next time and increase our sqn's almighty power.
cya all soon.

Hiya
Welldone 2 every 1 who participated @ wing training weekend and a great thankyou for helping me. :)

well don 79 sqn keep up good work

Yes well done indeed to everyone, i mean we must of marched a fair few meters that weekend. An all that dancing griffiths made me all loosy goosy the next day so im no longer a root while marching. Thanks for making the weekend happen.

well done every 1 at drill/first aid weekend, bin good. No matter what we can say we definatly dominated the dance floor ( thanks to cdt Austin, i never knew 1 person could keep dancing for so long, and have so many moves up his sleeve!!!!!) thanks all, c u soon

lofty x

All please note.

AGM on Tuesday 22nd has been prosponed

well done at sports day everyone !!!!!

Hi every1
well done cdt Downly u were brill at sports daywell done austin espesially !!! xxxxxxxxxx

well done to every 1 on the sports day it was ace well done to cdt austin ( if that how you spell your last name) to comeing 2nd on 1500 it was a gd laugh even tho my legs kill well done every 1

the government is trying to cut funding to the RAF red arrows, its part of their defence rebugeting thingy, there is currently a petition on the government petition thing.

sign up and save the mighty reds! worlds greatest


http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveTheReds/

Congratulation to Ben Dowley on gaining his Cpl it is well deserved. You have worked really hard for it. Keep up the good work

Well done ben Dowley on getting Cpl

if you get a chane to go to aie cadets at whitchurch then go because you can experince a lot here when you get to on camps you find how fun cadets is it is something to do so come and join and have a laugh because you will love it cdt moss

come and join air cadets because it is loads of fun and you will enjoy yourself and all the staff are nice and kind they all look after you and you will enjoy yourself if you get to go on camps and really enjoy yourself it is loads of fun you can get a lot from this experince enjoy yourselfs come and join give a go

well done to all cadets on the nco course, it was a load of fun. The disco was a great laugh, the dayglow were very noticable!!!!!!!!!!

Well done to everyone on the NCO course. I think we all agree it was a roght laugh! Good lad Foxon, you were made syndicate leader and saw it through to the end!

And Austin!!!! What a legend!!!!!!!! We're gonna have to get you bustin some moves on parade nights!

hi to every1
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If you wish to chat then please use the forum on the front page if you want the password email whitchurchsqn@hotmail.com (79 Sqn cadets only)

hi there this is a great website !!!!!!

welll done to alll those who played football cotton hope your knee is ok looks verry painful

Well done 5 a side team, shame bout no wins, but we all played well!!

Annual Award Night
Congratulations to all those cadets who gained awards last night, & commiserations to those who did not, perhaps next year.
It was an excellent evening with a great turn out.
May I also thank Cadet Parents for making it one to remember;
And Staff................one to forget!!
My Flabber was ghasted and my gob was smacked with your kindness, thoughts and gifts. Thank you each and every one.
Next Parade Night is 9th January 2007, see you all then
Happy Christmas

Many congratulations to Cadet Philip Austin who took part yesterday, at Portsmouth, in the annual cadet forces swimming competition. Gaining a medal and a Corps Blue
He came second in his heat, contributing to a continuing overall win by the Air Training Corps for I think the last 37 years!!
Well done indeed.

What a weekend...........
Firstly massive quantities of congratulations to F/S Evans for passing her Drill course, I know she was very nervous about it. I hope our phone call to her on Saturday night was helpfull. She is the first Drill Instructor Cadet on Sqn. We all are very proud of her.
ALSO praise to F/S Dowley who won first prize in the annual aeromodel competition between 79 and 151 (Leominster) at IPMS. He was presented with a "very large" kit model of a ship by the Project Manager of Revell, Volker Vahle. Revell sponsored us this year as our normal sponsors, Airfix, had gone into receivership.
Congratulations to Cdts Dowley and Christie for fine first time efforts.
The ATC as an organisation were presented with a certificate by the Council of the IPMS for their support over many years for the exhibition and aero modelling in particular. We have a copy for display.
A busy weekend indeed.

Postal Shooting results as follows;
SQN Total Average Posn
WHITCHURCH 222 74.00 1
LEOMINSTER 189 63.00 2
HEREFORD 142 47.33 3
EWYAS HAROLD 127 42.33 4
TELFORD STH 122 40.67 5
The best individual scores went to
1st F/Sgt Dowley of 79 sqn
2nd F/Sgt Evans of 79 sqn

Congratulations to not only those 2 but also the rest of the team

Congratulations to all those involved in the postal shoot, it wasa great result.

hi, just thought id take a look at your site nd say hi to all the people who went on summa camp ur all mint!!!!! nd i hope to see u all soon bye x x x

hi ppl jus bin browsin ur syt, its lukin guuuud, sum gd piccies. jus wna say hi 2 al the guys n girls tht went 2 summa camp '06!!! it ws amazin n ur a gr8 bunch of ppl. c u al at a wing event soon hopefully. ina bizzle macky xxxxxx

wow! what an awesome site gd to see it up and running, glad to see raf lyneham pictures whish i am on! nice! keep up the good work, aimee x

congrats to austin first the atc next the world

Congratulations to cdt Austin on his swimming success

Cdt Austin has done it again!!
2 golds and a silver at the Swimming at RAFC Cranwell on Sunday
He now will represent the ATC against other cadet organisations at RMC Sandhurst in the near future.
An absolutely tremendous effort on his part, WELL DONE

To all you budding aero modellers on Sqn, whether skilled or just beginning, an excellent site for you to visit is http://www.world-war-2-airplane-model.com/
It is part of the International Plastic Modelling Society web site and gives stage by stage tips on better modelling.
Please have a look, it will repay you in buckets.

I've just added a link to our website on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Air_Training_Corps. There were loads of other squadrons on there but not ours so i thought that i would add it.

Congratulations to Cdt Austin for his success at swimming on Sunday;
A gold in the backstroke, his relay team won silver and he achieved bronze in the butterfly.
These are the best ever results for the Squadron by a long way. Now he will represent Wales and West Region at the next level.

Well done 2 evry1 that went swimming!..i'm not in your sqn but i'll say well done anyway :)
xx

Also!!..Hope the banana dance is still with the Sqn cause me + Jess find so much fun in it :) xx

Hi miss Meaton?

I tried to send you and Email ref. Doug Meaton but your Comp would not accept it.I should be pleased if you could contact me,
Derrick (ex 79 Sqdn 1953 -55)

Well done to everyone who went swiming especially Cdt Austin

hi
just wondering if you had put any of the information on the website that my grandfather ( douglas meaton ) had given you . thanks

hiya peeps just wanna say wot great website nd wot great buch of cdts u all r, raf marham was mint and every 1 hu went on it made it specially good. miss u all loadz we all gt to meet up or summin ihope uall dnt 4 get me nd we av gt to stay in touch
luv uall loadz c ya mwaaa ruthie x x x

hey guys :)
i miss you all LOADS
come and save me ????
love you all laods
thanks for making this last week AMAZING!!!!
everyone stay on touch and dont forget me please :)
byeeeeeeeeee
CPL fletchie LOL
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nice website, Well done. Thanks to everyone from whitchurch that came on summer camp to RAF Marham, I had, and im sure everyone else had a great time. Hope the rest of the coach journey went well and that you all had a peacefull night.

Regards

Will Brazier

Armourer guns and bombs 44-45.Left squadron 1945 on demob, very interesting site brought back many memories.One hairy moment whwn bomb hung up and bounced into monsoon ditch being duty armourer job was to check that the fscl was still intact.Big sigh of relief,it was.

nice website ive got to say that ours is better though i like the fun and games idea though

Congratulations to all those who went to Wing Training, it was a very funfilled weekend and congratulations goes especially to Cdt Brassington, who had an amzingly smart uniform and managed to come third overall, which is a big acheivement.

heya sarah hope you had a wicked time in cyprus speak to youu soon xxxxxxxxxx tiffy

thanks 4 easter camp i really enjoyed it shooting the guns and enjoying my self if any one else gets a chance to go to easter camp take because it is fun
thanks to all the people for helping us all along every one enjoyed it
thanks cdt speedy

Every night is fun come and join us

Caption Contest

New seven legged breed of horse discovered at Wrexham Horse Show.

thanx to all the people at camp and who made it possable and it was fun thanx

site is ace an lyneham was brilliant every one there will ve missed thnx for cheerin me up AWO docker an thanx to every one twas an ace camp
the lyneham crew rock

thx to the staff who made it possible and i gained a lot of experience there so thx everyone at the camp.

Great camp at RAF Lyneham thanks to all the staff who made that possible

Lyneham was great!! Thanks to AWO Docker (sori if i spelt it wrong!!) n all the whichurch ladz!!!

DofE was fun even though we took a very slight detour. I don't think anyone noticed HaHa, we were only about 3 hours late. I think everyone had fun, even if they didn't show it on the photos. Well done to everyone who took part, it was a fairly exhausting trek.
N.B. Flt Sgt Dowley really was sitting down more than he was walking, as the photos hopefully show.

brilliant site nice to see it kept up to date and full of information ! some advice is that its a bit hard to navigate and its a bit busy bloody amazing ampart form that all the best ash

(Webmasters Note) Thank you for that, we always welcome comments.
The site hopfully is now less "busy" and a bit easeir to navigate round.

A up guys, hows it all goin, sounds like you're doin gud. I'll have to come n see you all sometime. I'm busy preparing for selection as a Crewman in the RAF so it will be after that sometime. All the best

Hi All,
Brilliant web site, Good to see you keep It Up to Date!.
I was Squadron W/O from1973 to 1980 when whitchurch was a D/F Of 1165 and then a D/F Of 617.
I am now out of uniform and semi retired as a CI with 2WW as deputy Wing Radio Officer.
I can possibly dig out some early photos for your history file if you wish.
All the best.
Pete Garrett.

Hello you lot, remember me(Flt Sgt Birch). Im at Halton as I speak. Training is intense allot of the drill is very different from atc drill oh and a little tip for any of you who want to join the RAF, dont tell them your an air cadet because they hate us all.
It aint really that bad, get to go home next weekend, cant wait.
Hope all is well at the squadron and i'll pop and see you after I pass out on the 11th April.

I was very shocked and saddened to hear that Ray Hanna had passed away.having been on 79 fr Squadron at the same time. He will be sadly missed by all in thre aviation world.
Will the photos and article that I sent be appearing on your Web site soon
UPDATE - A New Website is being built to accomadate all of 79 F Sqn items as there is not enough space on this site to put it all on. Please be patient.

Just thought I would pop in and see what was going on. Good to see things are going as well as ever.

Best wishes from the frozen north!!

Hi, I was in 1119 Sqn, and came found your website whilst browsing . Web site looks good.

All the best
Trev - ex.1119 sqn cadet

Would also like to add our acknowledgement of AWO Dockers Commandants commendation. AWO Dockers commitment to the Corps is worthy of such high recognition. Congatulations

Congratulations to AWO Docker on being awarded "The Commandant's Commendation for Meritorious Service".
This is thoroughly desrved as I know AWO Docker puts in a lot of time on Cadet activities outside of Squadron Parade Nights, especially in the area of Wing and Regional Sports and other activities.
On Sqn she is the Sqn Training Officer, Millenium Volunteer and DofE Co-Ordinator and Sqn WebMaster.
She also has other roles I no doubt have omitted, but it is fair to say she is almost a one person Sqn Staff.
One again congratulations and well done!
Flt Lt Simmons

A big hello again. Not spoken to you since Gib last year. Came accross your card last night and thought I would give you a ring. I was at Malpas Yesteryear rally on Saturday vwith family and thought as it was near Whitchuch you may have cadets there. You were not but I did speak to the Flt Lt i/c Malpas Sqn. Hope this finds you well.

Dear Chris and all, Many thanks for the squadron badge and am glad you received the signed posters for HQ. Regards, Ray Hanna

Yes! At last we have got a medal at swimming, even if it was a bronze. Well done to Cotton, Healey and Wardley who as well as myself did well in the relay. Well done, also, to everyone else who took part in the swimming.

What a great camp! I enjoyed every minute of it many thanks to all the cadets for making it so much fun

The weekend at Hawkstone Park with Telford South was very good and everyone behaved themselves except the odd officer. Cpl Sinclair, I've got you're beret!

You really do have a very good up to date web site
I am very very impressed

hi everyone, camp was great the banana dance was really strange but cool at the same time. were trying to teach it to our sqn but theyre too shy. the red sparrows was cool. overall 10 out of 10 for the camp(appart from the bus being late)
see you all soon (we hope)

Thanks for all the support and the amount of people that turned up at cosford for shooting. I had to do the banana dance to represent our sqn

Well what is there to say that hasnt already been mentioned. hmmmmm...Duxfod (again). Mountain Biking..Te He..Oh Yeah!! Greasy M'n'Ms. :) Thanks to everyone who was there. Great camp. See you around the wing some time, hopefully.
Rich

Well what can I say those pictures really do say too much information, glad to see that everyone was really happy and got on well as a camp. It was nice to spend time at camp with a different unit and I am sure I and many others will never forget that amazing dance. I had nightmares after with killer bananas taking over the world, only joking. Take care and hope to see you all very soon.

Brampton Summer Camp
What can I say;
without doubt 79 made their mark;
more awards than any other squadron,
entertainment leaders,
the "Red Sparrows",
the Banana Song!
It was a most successful and enjoyable camp.
Well done to all of you, we may be low in numbers, but the "Cadet Quality" is higher than ever before, a truly great team when we all work together.
So roll on next years camp. whenever and wherever that may be.

Thanks for a terrific camp guys. I had a great time and you were very entertaining. You made duxford far more bearable with your fab 'red sparrows' routines. You will be amazed to know that I have decided to try and give up smoking so far I have gone for 17 hours without a cigarette which is good I think. I'm sure alex will keep you up to date with my quest to be healthy!
Don't go changing any of you and keep up the excellent team work. I am sure I will see some of you in the not so distant future so make sure you say hello. Look after yourselves.
Kate x

Mint, classic, cool, wicked, entertaining, amazing, fantastic camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that rounds it up. Hope to see you all soon and don't forget the banana dance. Eat, Shake, Go and the yeah bit.
!!!!!!!!!!!WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

cheers all you lot from 79 sqn for making camp this year excellent it was such a laugh and i will never forget this week cheers

Thanks for a gr8 time! U lot was funny. I liked the Banana dance and will b spreadin it around wing as much as i can!! Cpl le pine, Titchen and oliver loved the red arrows thing, lots of potential! Hope to see you soon lads, and ladies!
From all of halesowen and myself!!
P.S Remember "Pound a pint, Yes!!" :D

hia Withchurch. it was gr8 bein on camp wiv u and was such a gd laugh wiv the whole banana dance and red arrow display thingy, cpl Le Pine, Titchen and Oliver wre gr8. Well i wont 4get dis week, Thanx!

Summer Camp was great.
May i take this oppertunity to thank the Staff and Cadets on the Camp for a great time.
If you have any pictures of the camp please send them to me.

I found imformation about you in Raf News.

Being a ex member of 79 (FR)Sqdn. in 1953 t0 55. I was interested. Served my Nat. Service as a photograper. Previously did 5 years in 10f ATC Squadron. Had a great time. I will see what photos I can dig out that may be of interest to .you

What a pity I didn't see any advertisement in RAF news about your 20th anniversary. Would have liked to have come! Was on squadron staff many years ago. Anyway, glad it went well though. What did you do to FLt Lt Harrison to make him run all the way to Scotland?

I am most impressed with the information & layout of this website, I feel all credit must go to AWO Helen Docker for her skill & dedication in building it and keeping it up to date.
I hope ex RAF 79ers are pleased with our commemoration of their activities and thoughts and I would welcome more contributions from them to enlarge and improve the site.
OC 79 (Whitchurch) Sqn

Found your website through chance - I was browsing through HQAC's website and saw the link.

A good site with lots of interesting features - especially the history. Are you planning on putting a section for past members of staff to display old pictures...?

Good to see your parade for the 20th Anniversary. I can't remember what we did for the 10th anniversary, if anything; although 1995 was a good year and there are plenty of pictures around of that era.

Sean Harrison
Now WSO Aberdeen and North East Scotland Wing
Ex CI, AWO and Officer of 79 (Whitchurch) Squadron 1987 - 1998ish

Nice to see the new site is up and running and kept up to date.

Great site, some excellent pictures. Its nice to see my old squadron doing well

Well done on the website looks great just needs the squadron to fill the pages full of what they get up to!