By: Kenneth B. Senar
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Dear Pod,
I have just finished reading your book "'I'll Call You Pod' - Cold War Recollections of a Low Level Pilot. I enjoyed it so much I felt it necessary to tell you how much pleasure it gave me.
I should explain that being a few months younger than you my own initial experience in the RAF followed yours very closely. Called up a few months after you I began with ITS at Kirton-in-Lindsey. Thereafter because I finished my training at RAF College I fell behind you and arrived at Jever (4 Squadron) just after you had left. But many of the personalities you mention in your narrative were still there: Ken Goodwin, Brian Iles, John Sutton, Browne with an 'e', Brian Watson, Fred Maycock, Robin Sandle, Sandy Sanderson and Pinto to mention just a few. Unsurprisingly I continued to bump into them during my subsequent 36 year RAF Career. Indeed during my last flying apointment, in Command of a Lightning squadron, Ken Goodwin was my Station Commander.
Brian Watson was one personality I got to know very well. I originally met him as a cadet at Cranwell, we were both keen squash players, and he took me under his wing during my first year at Jever. Our friendship continued years later when I was instructing at Oakinton and he was ADC to CinC Training Command. It was a sad day when he was killed in a helicopter accident the service lost a very promising officer.
But I digress from the intent of this email which was to thank you for encouraging me to wallow in a few hours of nostalgia in the midst of restrictions imposed by Covid 19.
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