May 2007£1.00
ROYAL AIR FORCE & DEFENCE FIRE SERVICES ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE Wanted For Model- urgent! ling project, june 2007 catterick air publication arMY event cancelled due specs on dp2? to operational coMMitMents! see page 22 see PAGE 18 – ‘one For tHe diarY!’ INSIDE THIS 24 PAGE ISSUE 25th AnniversAry of the FalklAnds WAR IN 1982 robert cApA - WW11 photogrApher & rAf crossley crAsh creW - mAgnum photos london member, W/o dAve stArkings mbe RETIRES from rAf mArhAm After 37 yeArs service neW cobrA 2 fire vehicle @ mod st AthAn - AssociAtion shop Maywww.fireservicesassociation.net 2007 www.fireservicesassociation.net 1 Flashpoint Magazine - May 2007£1.00 brief history of the Association Formation of the Association CONTENTS The formation of the Royal Air Force & Defence Fire Area Coordinators were subsequently elected to cover 2 Brief History of Services Association took place at Shoreham Airport in East the U.K. the Association Sussex, on the13th. May 1995, when 23 ex-service personnel The Intervening Years got together to settle the question of why there wasn’t an 3 Who to Contact Many changes have taken place since then as the organisation relating to the trade of firefighter when most and front cover Association established itself over the intervening years other trades had formed one of their own many years ago? photo detail and, with its formation, colleagues, past and present, Inaugural Committee Formed now have a better chance of finding each other again, 4 Editorial renewing old friendships and making new ones. On that day, when those founder members turned up from The Association publishes Flashpoint magazine 3 all over the country, they went on to form the inaugural 5 Chairman’s times per year with information, news, updates, articles, committee of the Association and elected the following reunion report anecdotes, photos.
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