Tuesday 29 April 2014

AF&V Your Pension

If you have served for any length of time after 1975 and left the forces after 1 January 1986, you are entitled to a pension at 60 or 65. The Current Armed Forces Pension Scheme (AFPS) ma Pension Pig

y suit some, but not all.

You do not have to remain in the Armed Forces Pension Scheme - you have the choice to switch to your own Self Invested Pension Plan (SIPP) which has many benefits including:

Tax free sum at age 55
You can leave 100% of your pension to loved ones
https://www.afvg.co.uk/money/pensions/

John (Lofty) Rames

Branch or Service: Royal Air ForceLength of Service: 15 Years
Rank on Discharge: Corporal
Pension Transfer Value: £88,000

Paul Gregson

Branch or Service: RN Fleet Air Arm
Length of Service: 10 years
Rank on Discharge: POAEA
Pension Transfer Value: £76,000

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Tuesday 22 April 2014

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Thursday 10 April 2014

USS Thresher

The following men were lost while serving on USS Thresher (SSN-593). For another complete listing of men lost on USS Thresher (SSN-593), each with a photo and short biography, please visit the excellent memorial website, USS Thresher 593.
Click on a man's name to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right. Most of the photographs are from United States Ship Thresher (SSN 593) In Memoriam.

	Name	Photo
1	Fred Philip Abrams*	Yes
2	Philip Harcourt Allen	Yes
3	Tilmon Joseph Arsenault	Yes
4	Ronald Clare Babcock	Yes
5	Ronald Eugene Bain	Yes
6	Daniel W. Beal, Jr.*	Yes
7	John Edward Bell	Yes
8	Robert Donald Biederman	Yes
9	John Hilary Billings	Yes
10	Edgar Solon Bobbitt	Yes
11	Gerald Charles Boster	Yes
12	George Bracey	Yes
13	Richard Paul Brann	Yes
14	Richard James Carkoski	Yes
15	Patrick Wayne Carmody	Yes
16	Steven George Cayey	Yes
17	Robert E. Charron*	Yes
18	Edward Christiansen	Yes
19	Larry William Claussen	Yes
20	Thomas Edward Clements	Yes
21	Merrill Francis Collier	Yes
22	Kenneth Ray Corcoran*	Yes
23	Kenneth James Critchley*	Yes
24	Francis Michael Cummings	Yes
25	Paul Chevalier Currier*	Yes
26	Samuel Joseph Dabruzzi	Yes
27	Clyde Elcott Davison, III	Yes
28	Donald Clifford Day	Yes
29	Ray Overton Denny, Jr.	Yes
30	Richard Roy Des Jardins*	Yes
31	Peter Joseph DiBella	Yes
32	Michael John DiNola	Yes
33	George J. Dineen*	Yes
34	Don Roy Dundas	Yes
35	Troy Earl Dyer	Yes
36	Richard Kaye Fisher*	Yes
37	Ellwood Henry Forni	Yes
38	Raymond Peter Foti	Yes
39	Larry Wayne Freeman	Yes
40	Gregory Joseph Fusco	Yes
41	Andrew Joseph Gallant, Jr.	Yes
42	Napoleon Tomas Garcia	Yes
43	John Edmond Garner	Yes
44	Pat Mehaffy Garner	Yes
45	Robert William Gaynor	Yes
46	Robert Howard Gosnell	Yes
47	John Gilbert Grafton	Yes
48	William Edward Graham	Yes
49	Paul Alfred Guerette*	Yes
50	Aaron Jackie Gunter	Yes
51	Richard Charles Hall	Yes
52	John Wesley Harvey	Yes
53	Norman Theodore Hayes	Yes
54	Laird Glenn Heiser	Yes
55	Marvin Theodore Helsius	Yes
56	James John Henry, Jr.	Yes
57	Leonard Hogentogler Hewitt	Yes
58	Joseph Hartshorne Hoague	Yes
59	James Porter Hodge	Yes
60	John Francis Hudson	Yes
61	John Penfield Inglis	Yes
62	Maurice Frank Jaquay*	Yes
63	Brawner Garth Johnson	Yes
64	Edward Albert Johnson	Yes
65	Richard Lee Johnson	Yes
66	Robert Eugene Johnson	Yes
67	Thomas Benjamin Johnson	Yes
68	Richard William Jones	Yes
69	Edmund Joseph Kaluza	Yes
70	Thomas Charles Kantz	Yes
71	Robert Dennis Kearney	Yes
72	Ronald Dean Keiler	Yes
73	George John Kiesecker	Yes
74	Billy Max Klier	Yes
75	Robert Lee Krag	Yes
76	George Ronald Kroner	Yes
77	Donald William Kuester*	Yes
78	Norman Gilbert Lanouette	Yes
79	Wayne Wilfred Lavoie	Yes
80	John Sheldon Lyman, Jr.	Yes
81	Templeman Norwood Mabry, Jr.	Yes
82	Frank John Malinski	Yes
83	Richard Herman Mann, Jr.	Yes
84	Julius Francis Marullo, Jr.	Yes
85	Douglas Ray McClelland	Yes
86	Donald James McCord	Yes
87	Karl Paul McDonough	Yes
88	Sidney Lynn Middleton	Yes
89	Henry Charles Moreau*	Yes
90	Ronald Arthur Muise	Yes
91	James Alton Musselwhite	Yes
92	Donald Emery Nault	Yes
93	Walter Jack Noonis	Yes
94	John Daniel Norris	Yes
95	Chesley Charles Oetting	Yes
96	Franklin James Palmer*	Yes
97	Guy Carrington Parsons, Jr.	Yes
98	Roscoe Cleveland Pennington	Yes
99	James Glen Peters	Yes
100	James Frank Phillippi	Yes
101	Daniel Andrew Philput	Yes
102	Richard Podwell	Yes
103	Robert Dan Prescott*	Yes
104	John Sage Regan	Yes
105	James Patrick Ritchie	Yes
106	Pervis Robison, Jr.	Yes
107	Glenn Alva Rountree	Yes
108	Anthony Alexander Rushetski	Yes
109	James Michael Schiewe	Yes
110	Benjamin Nathan Shafer	Yes
111	John Davis Shafer	Yes
112	Joseph Thomas Shimko	Yes
113	Burnett Michael Shotwell	Yes
114	Alan Dennison Sinnett	Yes
115	John Smarz, Jr.	Yes
116	William Harry Smith, Jr.	Yes
117	James Leonard Snider	Yes
118	Ronald Hal Solomon	Yes
119	Donald T. Stadtmuller*	Yes
120	Robert Edwin Steinel	Yes
121	Roger Edwin VanPelt	Yes
122	Joseph Alfred Walski	Yes
123	David Allan Wasel	Yes
124	Lawrence Eugene Whitten*	Yes
125	Charles Louis Wiggins	Yes
126	John Joseph Wiley	Yes
127	Donald Edward Wise	Yes
128	Ronald Eugene Wolfe	Yes
129	Jay Henry Zweifel	Yes

*Civilian

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Thursday 3 April 2014

Timeline of the Falklands War of 1982

Timeline of Falklands War of 1982

April 2nd: Argentinean forces invade the Falkland Islands.

April 3rd: Argentinean forces occupy South Georgia.

April 4th: ‘HMS Conqueror’ sailed from Faslane.

April 5th: ‘HMS Invincible’ and ‘HMS Hermes’ sailed from Portsmouth.

April 9th: ‘Canberra’ sailed from Southampton with 3 Para, 40, 42 and 45 Royal Marine Commandos on board.

April 11th: ‘HMS Spartan’ and ‘HMS Splendid’ (submarines) arrived off of the Falkland Islands.

April 12th: Britain announced a 200-mile Exclusion Zone around the Falkland Islands. The destroyer ‘Antrim’, the frigate ‘Plymouth’ with M Company, 42 Commando, sailed from Ascension to recapture South Georgia.

April 14th: The South Georgia Task Force rendezvous with ‘Endurance’ already in the vicinity.

April 18th: Task Force sails from Ascension.

April 21st/22nd: men from the SAS are inserted and then extracted from South Georgia.

April 25th: Royal Marines and SAS retake South Georgia.

April 26th: formal surrender of Argentineans at South Georgia. 2 Para sailed from Hull on the ‘Norland’.

May 1st: Task Force entered the Exclusion Zone. Vulcan bomber ‘Black Buck’ attacked the runway at Port Stanley. First air attacks by Harriers on Argentinean positions on the Falklands. SAS and SBS landed on the islands.

May 2nd: ‘General Belgrano’ sunk by ‘HMS Conqueror’.

May 4th: The destroyer ‘HMS Sheffield’ was hit by an Exocet missile. 20 men were killed. First Harrier lost over Goose Green.

May 12th: Fifth Army Brigade sailed from Southampton on the QE2. ‘HMS Glasgow’ disabled by an Argentine bomb.

May 14th: SAS raid on Pebble Island.

May 19th: 21 men from the SAS were killed when their helicopter crashed into the sea.

May 21st: first landings at San Carlos Bay. Men from the Royal Marines and Paras are landed along with commando artillery and engineer units. ‘HMS Ardent’ lost.