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Leavers event

northern-matelot

northern-matelot

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Over the years I’ve seen many people lament about the day they left the mob, ID cards handed to the duty sprog writer, cut in half, “cheers and good luck” with little ceremony.

Well seems like Radm Jude Terry RN is seeing a change to that. Not only do you keep your ID card these days (with the corners cut off) but anyone with 5 or more years service gets a valedictory certificate (asking as you’re no SNLR’d for being a wrong un), at an actual service leaver’s event.

 
I got a leaving certificate with PUNS in capital letters it took some explaining to future employers that this meant Physically unfit for naval service. Hardly an aid to finding work in the depths of an economic depression. I binned it and took to lying through my teeth which worked a treat. My service Certificate still has it in a nice big rubber stamp.
 
I have always thought my final day in the RN was a complete anti-climax. No-one seemed bothered one way or the other when completing the leaving routine. I didn't expect the Bootneck band playing" Farewell it's been good to know you" but neither did I expect the complete disdain which it seemed was par for the course at Nelson. If ever there was any thought of returning it was completely extinguished on that day.
 
I got to meet the commodore of nelson barracks, don't know his name but leaving after 27 years service and as a warrant officer I got exactly 1 minute for every 5 years served.

I would rather have had a pie with the stokers in the small ships canteen on FLJ.
 
fishhead said:
I have always thought my final day in the RN was a complete anti-climax. No-one seemed bothered one way or the other when completing the leaving routine. I didn't expect the Bootneck band playing" Farewell it's been good to know you" but neither did I expect the complete disdain which it seemed was par for the course at Nelson. If ever there was any thought of returning it was completely extinguished on that day.
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Similar , highlight was meeting a bloke I joined up with going out the same day.
 
fishhead said:
I have always thought my final day in the RN was a complete anti-climax. No-one seemed bothered one way or the other when completing the leaving routine. I didn't expect the Bootneck band playing" Farewell it's been good to know you" but neither did I expect the complete disdain which it seemed was par for the course at Nelson. If ever there was any thought of returning it was completely extinguished on that day.
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Concur.
I left my civvy gear in the SR's mess at Nelson whilst I did my leaving routine. Then when I went back to get changed into civvies, some clown thought it clever to ask me for my ID before I would be allowed back in the mess. By then, my sense of humour circuit breaker had popped and I was in extreme 'fcuk you' mode!!!
To cap it, when I went and picked up my car from the car park security had stuck a A4 bit of paper on the windscreen telling me I was illegally parked!!!!
I recall much foul language when I finally made it to the M27!!!!!
Nothing I did at Nelson that couldn't have been done at Portland.
 
May 02 I remember going into Nelson UPO and giving my ID card to a civvy to be cut up and warned that I was still under the terms of the NDA !!
Because I had been working at Pompey CFM (FMG) I went to the once a term leavers dinner in Nelson SRs mess just to get some return of the mess fees I'd paid over the years despite hardly ever using the mess. One of the other leavers was a Chief Cook who had been a PO cook on my first ship (HMS Bristol) when I was a JOEM 23 years earlier.
 
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Pusser sent me a letter directing me to Nelson to do my discharge routine, I was at Raleigh at the time,which was a discharge centre (no jokes please!) so got it changed to Raleigh, but they made that a complicated procedure, nothings easy with the mob!
 
Same experience as the rest of you.
However worked with Royal Thai Navy and was issued with a standard RTN ID card. On completion of the job was told I could keep it.
I have two RTN ID cards and anyone who has worked in the Kingdom will know that military ID is a Godsend when dealing with Thai police, customs and other officials :)
 
Last draft was SDG (Submarine Disposal Group). Wandered around Drake getting an assortment of stamps on a discharge card.
Walked out of the main gate thinking bye bye HMS DRAKE and all that. Four weeks later, came back through the gate as a civvie puke and spent the next 23 years in Drake, the dockyard or Mount Wise.
Deja vu rules okay.
 

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