Resettlement back then seemed to be pretty good as they geared it up for options for change and we had all sorts of stuff available to us but in the main the ethos was “you choose what you want to do and we will try and make it happen”. Just after I got there, the Falklands blew up and I was sent down to look after the crash and smash kit and ended up going right through, which was an experience, came back from there, went to Abingdon, then out to Brugen, came back did a couple of tours at various units and then came out under “options for change” in 1994 as a Sergeant. I came back from there and I was posted to Abingdon onto “crash and smash” which is a unit which picks up crashed aircraft basically. And as a change of scenery, going from the RAF Hospital (Halton) to RAF Gutersloh was as a dramatic change as you could get. Athan and trained as a Ground Engineer, then went to Halton as my first posting, then from there I went to Gutersloh in North Germany which was the frontline fighter station, home to the Harrier. “I joined the Air Force and went to RAF Swinderby for my basic training on the 31st December 1975 and so my first day in the RAF was Januand I was 16.Īfter basic training I went to St.

Pathfinder magazine is delighted to catch up with former Airman now turned best-selling author, Dougie Brimson in an interview over two parts to find out how he went from Sergeant to Wordsmith, selling over a million copies along the way…

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