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Welcome => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Phill Rushton on January 28, 2008, 02:38:36 AM

Title: Hello everyone.....
Post by: Phill Rushton on January 28, 2008, 02:38:36 AM: Hi to all the ex & still serving military chefs.
My name is Phill Rushton, I was in intake 2/81 Scarisbrick Platoon, A Coy.
It would be good to hear from anyone who knows or remembers me !!!
It would also be nice to know what happened to "MR BEASTIE" (Any ex member from 2/81 will know what I'm on about !!!!). ;D
Title: Re: Hello everyone.....
Post by: YorkieS on March 13, 2009, 03:13:29 AM: Would this be the Phil "Batman" Rushton? ;D
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Post by: Phill Rushton on March 13, 2009, 05:08:30 AM: Hello Yorkie, Yes It's "Batman" from the days with the Life Guards / Blues & Royals 1983-1986 at Lothian Barracks in sunny Detmold (more like "Wetmold"). Nice to hear from you, how are you keeping ????
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Post by: YorkieS on March 17, 2009, 04:42:16 AM: Am good thanks, surviving up in York. Got out in 05 and been here since. How's yourself doing? Was talking to Stu Eagles a while since, still chefing down in Tidworth area somewhere, haven't owt from Bizz tho, have you?
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Post by: scottie on March 20, 2009, 05:52:14 PM: hi Phil, I think i remember you, did you wear glasses?
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Post by: YorkieS on March 21, 2009, 12:27:12 AM: There were more like beer bottle bottoms than glasses ;D Must have had good eyes to see through them ;)
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Post by: scottie on March 21, 2009, 04:24:37 AM: Quote from: YorkieS on March 21, 2009, 12:27:12 AM
There were more like beer bottle bottoms than glasses ;D Must have had good eyes to see through them ;)

LOL Yorkie, I was being polite, but think we are talking to the one and the same, so hiya Phil, glad to hear your doing well. I have noticed a huge amount of traffic from b coy guys but limited from old A coy guys,
Title: Re: Hello everyone.....
Post by: Phill Rushton on March 21, 2009, 08:14:22 AM: Hi Ya Yorkie & Scottie
Sorry For Not Replying Sooner. Hope You Are Both Keeping Well....
I Have been Out Of The Army Since Feb 1995 ("Copped" A Compulsory On The Phase 2 (?) Redundancy's). I Am, At The Moment, The Head Chef Of The Junior Rank,s Mess At SAAvn (School Of Army Aviation) At Middle Wallop And I Live In Salisbury, Wiltshire With My Wife Of 17 Years, Mandy & My 14 Year Old Son Samuel, (Plus 3 Cat's & 1 Jack Russell)...
By The Way The Last Time I Saw Biz Was When I Got Posted To 94 Locating Regt RA in Larkhill in 1989 (Believe It Or Not I Was Joe Maggs Replacement, Remember Him???), I Think Biz Was Married To A German Lass And He Was Posted To Germany A Couple Of Weeks After I Arrived...
I Still Wear Glasses, And Yes They Are Still Like Bear Bottle Bottom's, Although They Are More Trendy These Days.........LOL
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Post by: scottie on March 22, 2009, 02:34:23 AM: Hi Phil, i am not a million miles away, i am in Taunton now. I have been thinking about trying to get a get a coy together at some point, the more the merrier you up for that, you are the first person i have had contact with, so if number are poor if may just be a tandem to the pub lol. Glad your well, be good to meet up sometime. Is my email visible to you on here?

Scottie