16 Tank Transporter Sqn, RCT, Fallingbostel, Scammell Commander, BAOR, 1987
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- Loading Chieftain MBT on to Scammell Commander/ Crane Fruehaf trailer and a drag departing from 16 Tank Transporter, 7 Tk Tptr Regt RCT with Royal Engineer AVLB and Centurion , AVRE. 7 regiment,
CTroop office. A Troop office, Sparkasse, Meeting pub, www.hgvcourses.co.uk
Much respect to you and your friends at the tank division and such a great step back in time i love seeing those scammell commander's ❤🎉🎉
The good old days never to be again BAOR
Great video
Happy Days my Dad Served In BAOR With 3 Tank Transporter great videos In The !970s An with XIX squadron Great Video thanks for Sharing them.
I was about 4 the time this happened, and my dad was in the North Staffs. I remember going to the 16 tanks Nursery, and then Shackleton Primary school. The guys there used to have open days where the kids could sit in all the tanks and there was a huge parade. Awesome times
What a great find bringing back many happy memories. I was Ops Officer of 1 STAFFORDS based at St Barbara Barracks, Fallingbostel at the time of this film. We lived in SOQ1 on Queen's Avenue.
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Heres a couple more of Fally I put on here
We were up at The Staffords shop most nights and 3 Queens who were there before yourselves.
wow.... I thank you soooo sooooo much for this upload......I´m crying right now.... sooo many small details that changed over the last 30 years..... at 12:32 you see my best friend Michael on his bicycle which I haven´t seen since 2004 but I know that he´s become a semi pro billard player of 2.Pool Bundesliga........and many so much thanks for the other parts of your duco...God bless you Mr. Mellon
Great series of videos. 👍
It was great seeing this vid brought back so many memories of my time in Fally as a kid , (76-80 and 84-87), my ole fella was Geordie Robinson in B troop.
When I was stationed ln fallinbostell in the 60s with the Royal Scots greys the Tank Transporters were crewed by a unit called the MSO ALL displayed persons From Eastern Europe and great at there job
The MSO or Mojo"s were mostly Polish. They had a working troop at 16 sqn until 1987.
my dad was in the 16 Tank Transporter regiment , Staff Sargeant William Middleton ( Bill Middleton to his friends )
Hi
Your Dad who was C troop Staff sergeant filmed this video with his newly acquired cam corder for me and my mate who were leaving. You can hear him say no thanks at 5:10 on this video. Think he had a Honda Prelude at the time.
i spent 6 weeks digging trench,s around that base some 18 years ago ,putting in ducting for unicom ,had some good laughs in the evenings having a beer or two
brought back a feww memories, cheers.
Brings back great memories, if i remember correctly half of 16 sqn were in ireland when this was filmed, great to see fally again.
Yes that's correct
I remember only passing through Hameln with 16 Sqn and not going there to
move any armoured vehicles.
Me, ex-REME, attached to 3RTR here during Cold War in the '60s. . . good luck guys !!
Me, ex-3RTR Ratbag kid, same time. My Old man was SSM of (IIRC) HQ Sqn and I was such a shit I got packed off to boarding skul where I learned to be a bigger shit. Then joined the NZ army RNZAC myself.
God this brings back memories, know all the faces
Say Hi to your Dad (Bill) for me, Last seen him in 1985 in Fally. He is a good guy. Regards Ray Green
Great footage of Fally and 16 Tk TPTR Sqn and quite a few faces and places I recognise. I was the M.C. SSgt Charlie Skivington. Thanks for posting this I found it by chance.
Great food as well CS
Thanks Jon happy days
My dads in it too Gerry Richardson. back then though he had plenty hair but not sure if there's more on his top lip than his head lol. Great vid
Thank you for that.
was there 80/84 on the change over for the antar
I remeber going out on drag with these buggers, serving drag stew out of hay boxes and tee out of Norgies. Good times.
one or two faces i recoconised in this clip, 1 being Jeff Selms, and at 6mins 21sec, i know the face but not the name....both were drivers when i was there 1974 - 1978
I love the paint job on the Sherpa.
What's the RCT corp music , Paint Your Wagon ? Again.
so many old faces, Ted Knott, Gerry with Hair lol, and some I'm sorry to say i can't remember their names.
John "Knocker "Wright ex 3 TK Tptr Sqn RCT/RLC
No mate.. Bill Middleton C Troop staff Sgt filmed this. It's April 1987. Around the time the Mojo's were disbanded.
8reg 13 Sqn RCT also 20sqn.RCT.
Such a shame the Army is being cut to shreds and that we're pulling from Germany. Loved being based there as a child.
Faun SLT-50 8x8 Schewrlasttransporter w drodze na poligon w Ustce
Rct at their best oh this predictive text
My squadron
my dad was in the 1 RCT back in the 70`s on to the early 90`s i think it was, his name was lance corporal michael suffield.
Hi Daniel I knew a mick Suffield when I was in the RCT in 1 Arms Fld Amb went to Denmark with him always remember his missing teeth if its the same person
+andy hone Ello Andy
Yes that is him and his wife to the time was name Birgit.
+andy hone and he has no teeth now by the way, my dad told a lot of stores about who he met and what he did and so on.
Very apt that the REME get the Sherpa van - the most unreliable piece of kit in the convoy and that's saying something with all those Chieftains!
Reck
Everything
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@@restojon1 We preferred "Rape Every Maiden Eventually" 😂🤣🤘 - Plus Wreck starts with a W!
I'm a former Lance Corporal and I don't have my assigned reader (full screw) or reader and writer (SaRJunnT) with me. I've been left unattended with nobody to shout at and no coal scuttles to boot into orbit since 1994 lol. I think I've got that PTSD (Post Transport Swearing Disorder)
@@restojon1 I was hoping to pull rank on you but as a former Lance Jack myself, I cant. The closest I really came to RTC was 45 Squadron, based at SEE Arborfield, who consisted mainly of some pretty young civilian Ladies who drove staff cars! Happy Days!
The Sherpa looks tiny next to the Scammells.
I love the British Centurion.
They were superior in armor and mountain climbing ability to the U.S. M46, M47,M48 and even the M60's.
This was proven in Korea by Centurion tanks climbing mountains
That U.S. tanks could not match and by Israeli mother's pushing their tank crew sons to get into Centurion brigades rather than Patton brigades due to greater survivability in wars with the Arabs in 1967.
Those old Chieftains have been cut up and melted down by now. Probably now in the form of some old old metal food cans rusting in a landfill in Asia.
Theres a couple of Cent AVRE's there also
Quite a few ended up as hard targets at Lulworth. Good memories blowing holes in them with HESH and APFSDS rounds.
what year was this please my Dad was in this regiment.Bill Hicks
Mid 1987
aright tony
Hi Chris
Alright mate hope your good!
So, please tell me, what is a drag in army terms?
A" Drag" is what British Tank Transporter units (Whats left of them) use to describe going on a detail. ( dragging a trailer behind you)
Drag was used from the antar days as they only had a low top speed of just over 30mph as it took so long to get any where it dragged on to drive any where so it was shortened to drag it was not used by any other unit or regiment in the British Army
What sort of speed can these maintain on a motorway ?
Bob
40 mph
Hi Stephen
Give my regards to your Dad for me. He volunteered me many times to wait on...ha ha
Oh my god! The meeting pub , many a night getting a cab back to 7 armoured ! Dave x reme
And Smellies
Dave who?
Rat at their best
I knew you meant RCT Tom! Although they were based at Fallingbostel! home of the Desert Rats
When someone wants to take contact to "George Barcikowski" I'm his son. Dm me
Hi Charlie
there is footage in the cookhouse on this link
Tony
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Tony Mellon ..
Thanks Tony I think it was just after I left in Oct 88?
@@charlieskivington9020 The video was made by C Tp SSgt Bill Middleton about May 1987.