Serious question for me.

[dot.hawkes]

My 19 year old son has just sent a text telling me he has just had his first ever conversation with his dad. There hasn't been much contact really, not thru any animosity, they are just both very very quiet and unemotional people. My son wants to go into the RAF, his dad was in for 12 years. Is the RAF life still as good as it was 25 years ago when we were in married quarters?

[nannon]

RAF St Athan???? do you live there?? llantwit major is my home town!

[nannon]

Sorry, got excited then...

Has your son always wanted to go into the RAF?? or just since he spoke to his dad? many of my friends are in the RAF and have always wanted to be and they all are very happy

[dot.hawkes]

AHHHHHHHHH, is the FBI still there round the back of the baser? Fisherbridge Inn? I used to go to the pub in llantwit, the something Hind? In the main bit there just up from the doctors on the left

[dot.hawkes]

He wants to go into the RAF mainly cos there isn't much around here for him, his dad was in the MR team that covered the brecons and the recovery of the dozy SAS trainees from hereford. i worked at Howells! but i spent my leisure time at nash point lol

[nannon]

the reason i asked was in case he was doing it to please his father or if he really wanted to. There isnt very much around there (Do you/he still live there?)

Not sure of the pubs you mentioned...there is the swan, lion, globe now in the square bit! Small world innit??!

[dot.hawkes]

it is a very small world, I left there in 1981 but my mate Christine hewins still has her family there, they lived in a bungalow behind the main street, she worked in cowbridge in the lawnmower repair office. i loved llantwit and Ogmore but the FBI was my fave, did u ever go to the red dragon on camp? I think it was the Swan, it's the one on the left where you had to step doen into the doorway as i recall! God we used to drink that place dry!

[nannon]

oh, think that was before my time i didnt move to St Athan/Llantwit til 1986 and i was only 3 then!!! we lived in Holland / Germany before then til dad was posted there!

[nannon]

the pub that you step down into used to be the globe, then it was the tudor and now its back to being the globe agan!

[dot.hawkes]

Apart from the Mountain rescue my ex hubby worked on Vulcans first with 1 squadron and then the Tornado which was the newest big thing at the time! The MR dos were ace! they had their own HQ near the naafi and we really tied one on there! lol we\ lived on Tilbury on West Camp but the action was always on east camp lol

[dot.hawkes]

Not Tilbury, sorry mallory!

[CLOWN TICKLE]

Hi dot, I think if you are personally content with the idea of military service then its a fine option for someone who has some abilities to consider

[dot.hawkes]

it's not me! R-soles posted a totally irrelevant and pathetic response and it was removed

[A Chill Wind]

That's the problem with removed answers, they can throw subsequent responses out of context. I saw the original post to this as well, so can vouch for dot.

Hope Junior Hawkes makes a go of it, and don't forget to pack him some Brylcreem...