ATC Sunday – First Wing Parade
Sunday 5th February saw an exciting day for the squadron. The annual Wing Parade to commemorate ATC Sunday was held, withLancaster as the host squadron, and the entirety of the newly formed Cumbria and Lancashire Wing arriving in the city to join the celebration (totalling approximately a massive 650 people). Starting with a church service [...]
Annual Camp 2011- RAF Boulmer
We arrived at RAF Boulmer after a 3 hour coach journey, we were designated our luxury single room accommodation; equipped with a sink, wardrobes, cupboards and drawers. Then we were thrown into the hectic training program, and we were designated into our Flights (A Flight and B Flight) with A Flight led by Sgt Smullen of 345 [...]
First Time Flier
For flying you have to be on the coach for 07:50, when you get to RAF Woodvale you get off the coach and march down to 10 AEF (10 air experience flight). Then you watch a safety video (it’s a bit boring, but has to be done), after that you do a practice of abandoning [...]
Nijmegen 2011
The Nijmegen 4-day marches are quite unheard of in the public, but most definitely aren’t within the cadets – 4 days of long distance road marching in Holland (around 25 miles a day), with around 5000 other members of the military and 40000 civilians along side you, it’s an event you will never forget. It [...]
Christmas Social
Christmas do! For Christmas every year cadets hold a party before standing down over the Christmas holidays to celebrate the festive season. We as cadets get to chose what we do. The activities vary from ice-skating, bowling, Trafford centre or laser quest (magazone but better). This year we decided to have a little party having [...]
Lancaster and Morcambe College
Sports at the college Sports at Lancaster and Morecambe College are the best for matches and full on games. At the Collage we play games like hockey, football and basketball. My favourite is basket ball because I am good at it compared to the rest, sometimes it gets very good because some cadets and staff get very [...]
Lancaster University Sports
Sports Sport at the University of Lancaster is very fun they have a fun range of activities and sometimes you can pick and chose! You only have to pay a small fee because squadron cannot provide the money because they are not made of it. Swimming if fun you can play games with your friends [...]
Life as a new cadet
The reason that I wanted to join the Air Cadets is that I wanted to meet new people and try activities that I have never done before. I thought that the Air Cadets would help me understand about the armed forces and to do further education and activities upon the purpose. My first experience with the 345 squadron was quiet unusual, it [...]
RAF WARMA Winter Walk
On the 3rd October, a small group of cadets and staff took part in the RAF WARMA Winter Walk in Sandbach, which meant completing either a 10km, 20km or 30km walk… Being the determined and challenge-relishing Squadron we are, we had to go for the 30km. It was not a good start; with torrential rain [...]
Lancaster’s Gold DofE Practice
The recent Gold (practice) Duke of Edinburgh expedition was eagerly anticipated by all participants, including myself. The route was planned and the challenging terrain was certainly going to make it harder than any expedition any of us had undertaken before, not just physically but navigationally to. We spent the first night at a relatively popular [...]