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appollo1
14-03-13, 09:17 PM
On monday I handed in my ID card and walked out the gate of RAF Leuchars for the last time. :salut:

22 years done and now officially retired and a pensioner. :lol: \\:D/

I have been to some great places around the world and some right shizzholes but enjoyed the majority of it. :smt039

Unfortunately the last 2 years i have worked for a complete spineles waste of space who couldn't manage for toffee and if i ever see him will have to hold back from punching him in the throat.:smt076:toss::smt072

Now what to do with my time?

maviczap
14-03-13, 09:25 PM
French Foreign Legion?

Wish I could retire, it'll be 33 years this year

Well done Appollo

Bibio
14-03-13, 09:27 PM
congratz and welcome back to civvy street.

now you have no excuses to come out to play :-)

BanannaMan
17-03-13, 03:28 AM
Congratulations!

Enjoy a bit of time off first!

muzikill
17-03-13, 07:08 AM
Go full time on your hobbies tbh. A ticklist of things you want to do perhaps?

Just getting out before leuchars is downgraded. Lucky you. :)

Dicky Ticker
17-03-13, 09:35 AM
Welcome to the bus-pass club,retired,thats what you think,just wait till the management starts finding a 1001 jobs that you can do now.

Enjoy it mate,we deserve it,coming up for six years for me and apart from the odd day when the weather is crap I am far from bored.

Skybaba
17-03-13, 11:15 AM
Now what to do with my time?

The same question on my mind!!

craig dow
17-03-13, 11:37 AM
enjoy your self , you've worked hard and done a lot for our country ,as every one who is and have served in the forces , now go out and enjoy it , get that bike you always wanted and go touring , and have fun

coopesh56
17-03-13, 11:37 AM
22 years that's devotion, done 4 and already feel like bombin out! Then again odiham does have that effect on people!

Dicky Ticker
17-03-13, 11:44 AM
Six Sun £9:50 Holidays a year takes up a bit of my time.Next two already booked and all I do is pick a part of the country I have not had a good look round and explore.

andrewsmith
17-03-13, 01:39 PM
Well done mate

Get a new job or the fiance manager will give you 5 years work in the house!!

sent from a weapon of mass distraction

Fruity-ya-ya
17-03-13, 01:50 PM
Well done. Flat cap and slippers is often the norm round these parts but maybe not just yet eh.

Ian P
17-03-13, 07:59 PM
after doing 25 years in the army, took 6 months off work for a bit of down time and to get some work done on the house, then took an FTRS contract with the army as civvy street pays s**t wages (which they make you work for) no sports afternoons, wont give you time off for training, no early knock off on a friday ( by early i mean no later than 1200hrs) or late start on a monday (1000hrs at the earliest) and finish work at 1500 every day (when possible). plus i want a free skiing holiday every year and as many AT courses as i can get in. Too much like hard work being a civvi

Richie
18-03-13, 01:07 AM
Congratulations, you're 3 days earlier than me, as On Thursday I handed my ID card in also :0)
22 years in the Army :0)

And Just RELAX..... as it's their problem now :0)

punyXpress
18-03-13, 11:35 AM
Congratulations Appollo &Richie - well done.
And Richie: have you ever thought that for 22 years you WERE the problem? ;)

timwilky
18-03-13, 12:38 PM
Appollo & Richie, you lucky lucky people. Some of us are expected to work until we drop.

Enjoy the luxury of being able to do what the hell you want to do for a change.

missyburd
18-03-13, 01:24 PM
What's the equivalent of a lady of leisure...a chap of convenience, a bloke of boredom, a fella of freedom? :-P

Enjoy your time off either way Ricky!

The Idle Biker
18-03-13, 02:42 PM
Congratulations and good luck with the future, what ever you choose.

The East Wing on my Country House needs a good spring clean ready for when we open to the public. If you have some free time I can help you.

appollo1
19-03-13, 10:43 PM
22 years that's devotion, done 4 and already feel like bombin out! Then again odiham does have that effect on people!

Odiham.....aaahhh memories from that place are pretty vague as i spent most of my time there hungover.

Congratulations, you're 3 days earlier than me, as On Thursday I handed my ID card in also :0)
22 years in the Army :0)

And Just RELAX..... as it's their problem now :0)

Congratulations Richie

coopesh56
20-03-13, 12:48 PM
Spent my first 4months there in a porta cabin before I got my shared room! Can't forget that trauma!

Though 33eng awaits in four weeks... Hello brize shift pattern, finally get a chance to use this bloody bike !