All about Jankers

by Jim Lee Jim Lee recounts a couple of incidents regarding Jankers (although he neglects to give his score, perhaps you lost count Jim?)

One story about Jankers is when we no longer had all our own webbing and drew a set from flight stores when needed (quite often in my case) Usually as it was only kept for Jankers it was always in good condition and only needed a quick once over to be ready to go. Well this time I got 3 days for smoking or some such and went and drew the webbing, it looked good so I just put it together. Too late I noticed that one of the ammo pouches was new and had never seen Blanco in its life so I bit the bullet and went on defaulters parade as is. The duty officer that night happened to be a young national service education officer. He got to me, looked at me and said, " That pouch is not clean!" Off the top of my head I replied, "It is brand new sir and the Blanco would not take". "OK" he said "but make sure you give it a good coat by tomorrow." I wish I could think that quick all the Time.

Another episode when I didn't think so fast and so got a spell of "CB". I was going home to West London one Saturday afternoon, just after we had all been marched down to the stadium for the Famous "Bad Apple" lecture. I was just the other side of Tring when this Morris Minor pulls up in response to my thumb. This guy get out and asks me "Do you know who I am?" "No' I replied. "I am Group Captain -----" I can't remember his name but he was the one in charge of workshops. Need I say more!

Win some, lose some, Jim.

From entries on the feedback page on the web site, and from e-mails, it seems that Jim Henry was ' King of The Janker Wallahs,'