Radschool Association Newsletter

Radschool Association Newsletter - Vol 5

31 May 2000

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Point Cook.

We recently received a letter, via a round about route, from a group called the Point Cook Operations Ltd (PCOL). We don’t know anything about them but they say they are a non-profit organisation which was recently established to retain the base as a heritage precinct and operational airfield.

Yours, on R&R at Point Cook’s back beach, sometime in 1966. With emotional memories like this, it has to be preserved-doesn’t it??

The Department of Defence has announced plans to dispose of the base sometime in 2002, which means that it will most likely be sold to a private developer, chopped up, and built on. PCOL reckons that most ex-Radschoolers would be fully conversant with the significant heritage value of the site, and would have an emotional attachment to it. The PCOL want to further develop the RAAF museum which is situated at Pt Cook, keep the strip open to aircraft, and to preserve Australia’s military aviation heritage. I think they’re right, it would be a shame to lose it all.

PCOL are asking all concerned to lend their weight behind the push to preserve the base by writing to the Federal Defence Minister requesting that the disposal of Point Cook be reconsidered. Anyone with any questions, or just wanting to know more, can contact the PCOL direct on 0407 195 597, or by fax to 03 9256 1692.

We’ll leave it to you.

One of life’s great ironies.

Ever wondered why it is that every time you go to the club and have one or two more than they say you should have if you want to drive, and you get someone else to drive your car home, you never see a cop - but drive the thing home yourself.....

John Harris and Bob Bocos, at the Brisbane reunion in October, 1999. These blokes first met in 1960 while doing rookies at Rathmines, then went on to Radschool at Ballarat, then as it happens, when they’d finished at Radschool in 1961 they were posted to separate units and didn’t see each other again until last year. Now, isn’t that what reunions are all about???

Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press the Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is - true.

Val Robinson and Geoff Forsyth at the Melbourne reunion-Oct 99

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