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RAF Wittering Pays Tribute to Bill Moore • RAF Apprentice of the Year • in the Spotlight...RDA TITLE OF ARTICLE SECTION HEADING Summer 2019 WitteringThe official magazine for RAF Wittering and the A4 Force View SUMMER 2019 WITTERING VIEW 1 Features: RAF Wittering Pays Tribute To Bill Moore • RAF Apprentice Of The Year • In The Spotlight...RDA SECTION HEADING TITLE OF ARTICLE Foreword As many of you will have heard by now I am heading to pastures new as Air Officer for A4 Capabilities, which means that this will be my last opportunity to write a foreword for Wittering View as your Station Commander. The busy pace of life at RAF people set out on their careers. We fantastic all ranks RAF100 dinner, Wittering makes writing have also connected with the Jon the signature event at Wittering relatively easy; there is always Egging Trust to help support their was the national finals of Race something new and significant important work with disillusioned for the Line. HRH The Countess to talk about, whether it’s our young people, a process that is of Wessex, our Honorary Air resident flying squadrons or intended to demonstrate a new Commodore, came to see over our engineering and logistics path for them to better realise their 300 children work in teams on Editor specialists. individual potential. their miniature rocket cars before Welcome to the Summer edition At the end of my tour as Station As impressive as these their exciting race, and we were all of Wittering View. Commander, I find that I’m spoilt achievements are, our role is treated to an amazing display from This edition is packed with for choice. Looking back over the to enable the Royal Air Force’s the Red Arrows. the fantastic achievements of our last two years, the people of RAF contribution to protect the My new role will bring me personnel: marking the delivery of Wittering and the A4 Force have people of the UK, prevent back to Wittering from time Science Technology Engineering and some truly impressive achievements conflict, and be ready to fight our to time. Nevertheless, it’s my Maths (STEM) courses to more than to their credit. Starting close to enemies. We do this by preparing intent that my successor, Group 340 young people (page 21); a new home, our engagements with the next generation of Royal Captain Jo Lincoln, should have association for serving personnel Stamford, Peterborough and Air Force pilots and sustaining as much opportunity to enjoy and veterans of 5001 Squadron and Leicester have had a real impact on operations and exercises with her tour as Station Commander the RAF Airfield Construction Branch the understanding of what we do for our specialist engineering and as I had. Certainly, it has been a (page 22); and WO Rose winning Defence in the local community; our logistics squadrons; without huge honour to command RAF a prestigious catering award in the parade in Leicester last year, the first transport, food, fuel, electricity Wittering and I am certain that Armed Forces category of the Cost for many years, was a huge success. and shelter there is no air power. Group Captain Jo will find it no less Sector Catering Awards (page 8). And who could forget the work of To have been a Station rewarding when she takes over in We celebrate the visit of HRH the 1 EL Squadron and 2 MT Squadron, Commander in the Royal Air August. Whether you serve at RAF Countess of Wessex, who opened the connecting NHS and emergency Force’s Centenary year was a Wittering or at other units as part new RAF Benevolent Fund funded service workers with vulnerable singular privilege. To see how the of the A4 Force, I sincerely thank playparks at the end of April. There are people when ‘The Beast from the people of this Station supported you and your families for the work some great photographs on page 16. East’ poured snow onto Lincolnshire. the main efforts in London and you have given to the Station, A4 Sadly, we mark the passing of Bomber This was in addition to routine across the country, and to see how Force and the Service during my Command veteran and friend of RAF deployments to the Baltics, Cyprus, they raised money for the RAF tenure over the last two years. Wittering, Bill Moore, whose funeral Iraq, Afghanistan, the United Arab charities, was inspiring. Beyond the Gp Capt Tony Keeling was held recently (page 11). Emirates and Mali. On page 9 we look forward to This Station is also a place of WittFest, our key event to thank education and training. We routinely our personnel for their work and train our young pilots and A4 Force commitment and our service personnel, but I wonder if anyone families for their continued support. could have foreseen the impact Deputy Project Officer, Lucy Heal, we would have on the lives of so provides us with a taste of things many young people through our to come – make sure you have it STEM courses? Speaking to parents, firmly marked in your diaries, I look I heard over and again just how their forward to seeing you there! children had grown and developed Flt Lt Madi Timlin as a direct result of their week-long courses here. In Stamford we have helped New College design their Air & Defence Course and are making a positive contribution as these young Submissions Please direct all submissions for Wittering View Magazine to: The Editor, [email protected] [email protected] Please try to ensure that images are in .jpeg format and as large as possible. Text should be supplied in Microsoft Word Find us on Facebook .doc format or plain text if possible. at Wittering View 4 WITTERING VIEW SUMMER 2019 TITLE OF ARTICLE SECTION HEADING Wittering View The official magazine for RAF Wittering and the A4 Force 06 16 23 Contents Role of a Lifetime 06 News In Brief 08 RAF Wittering pays Tribute to Bill Moore 11 Padre’s Corner 11 The Joining of Two Airfields 12 2MT Baltic Air Police 13 Countess of Wessex opens New Play Park 16 RAF Apprentice of the Year 19 Reserve Squadron Scoops Awards 19 In the Spotlight... RDA 20 STEM Course at RAF Wittering 21 Employer Support Day 21 5001 ACBA 22 Wittering Fuels Support Team 23 Ready for Operations The Pursuit of Pedal Power 23 Community News 24 Tea Break Time 26 11 In The Hot Seat 30 Editor Distribution Designed By Flt Lt Madi Timlin Morrisons Stamford, Sainsbury's Stamford, Families' Sherrie Bacarese [email protected] Shop Wittering, Walkers of Stamford, Stamford coffee shops, Phoenix Shop Wittering, Wittering Advertising Deputy Editor local businesses and amenities. Lance Print Ltd, 1st Floor, Tailby House, Emma Stacey Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL Published By Tel: Jo on 01536 334221 Team Lance Print Ltd, 1st Floor, Tailby House, [email protected] Marissa Russell, Cpl Paul Robertshaw, Ed Palmer Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL and SAC Kim Waterson. Tel: 01536 334222 Printing www.lanceprint.co.uk Lance Print Ltd, Email: [email protected] Tel: 01733 390564 SUMMER 2019 WITTERING VIEW 5 FEATURE ROLE OF A LIFETIME Role of a Lifetime Group Captain Tony Keeling discusses his career and the experiences that led him to be appointed the Station Commander and A4 Force Element Commander at RAF Wittering. THE opportunity to become a to a commission would prove so Station Commander comes only challenging that it very nearly didn’t once in the life of an RAF Officer. happen at all. While many are called to a career Before starting his three-year in the Service, few are chosen for engineering degree at the Royal this responsibility. Those who have Military College of Science at gone on to achieve higher ranks in Shrivenham, Tony had to complete an the RAF will often reflect that their academic preparatory course at RAF most enjoyable tour of duty was as a College Cranwell. He only just passed Station Commander. the course and entered Shrivenham This is certainly a sentiment as a training risk. But it was this expressed by Gp Capt Tony Keeling experience that hardened his sense who, after two years, is now coming of self-determination. He said: “It takes to the end of his time as Station hard work. You have to recognise for Commander at RAF Wittering. yourself that you have a talent and Tony Keeling was born in finding that inner talent will unlock all Nottingham in 1969 and moved to kinds of opportunities for you.” Manchester at the age of four. He Tony graduated with a first-class and his wife Bobby have two children Station Commander Group Captain Tony Keeling. honours degree in aero-mechanical and, while he identifies himself as systems engineering and then, after a northerner but, like many Service I was hooked.” your hands. graduating top of his class at Cranwell, personnel, says that home is simply It is just as well; grammar school Trade training complete, in commissioned as an engineering where the family is. had not provided the young Tony 1990 he arrived at RAF Cottesmore officer into the RAF in 1999. He joined Proudly an RAF engineer, he Keeling with an environment in (now Kendrew Barracks) as a junior the Military Aircraft Authority on its joined up as a Halton Apprentice but which his technically-orientated skills technician when it was home to formation in 2010, set up after the his first experience of working on an could develop. Even now, years after the Tri-National Tornado Training Haddon-Cave enquiry into the crash aircraft came as an air cadet.
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