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Catering Flight 2021
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AC Piya Phuttharaksa & SAC Joe Northover were deployed on Ex. CLOCKWORK in Bardufoss, Norway. They provided catering support for the Extreme Cold Weather Training led by the Marines. They worked alongside Army & Navy chefs feeding up to 180 pax for a month. SAC Prem Lama challenged himself to run 160km over the 28 days of February, averaging 5.7km a day. He completed his challenge completing 202km and raised £211 £211 for Bone Cancer RAISED Awareness. FOR BONE CANCER AWARENESS
Bournemouth Airshow
This cookbook celebrates 100 years of the Royal British Legion, an organisation close to the Armed Forces. SACs Prem Lama, Connor Mackie & Phoebe Mitchell’s recipes were selected to represent their home regions. This is a huge achievement to be selected out of hundreds of entries.
Throughout the year and all the uncertainty of COVID 19, all of us were presented with a range of new challenges. SAC Vivienne Buinimasi stepped up to a new SAC Prem role, tasked into the newly set up Lama Covid Cell. She was responsible for compiling data, presenting up to date statistics and ensuring high Cpl Katie Coley deployed to Al Udeid, Qatar, for a 4-month tour as ranking officers were in the know of all potential outbreaks and cases. accommodation manager. During her time, she kept busy, completing Her hard work was recognised, and various sporting challenges such as she was awarded the Professional Excellence Award. 5k Fun Run & 24hr spin-a-thon.
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Heroes Cookbook. They supported 3MCS and engaged with the public, showing their deployed catering skills, and speaking about their experiences whilst serving.
SAC Stephanie Pye and Cpl Ed Horsman participated in the annual Health & Wellbeing Week with different classes over 3 days. They showcased their skills and knowledge with live cooking £825 demonstrations, had a RAISED professional nutritionist speak FOR THE RAF and gave a presentation on BENEVOLENT diets specific to job roles and FUND taskings.
9 members of Catering Flight took part in a 100km Charity Bike Ride for RAFBF. The ride was challenging, on and off road in 30?C heat. The full team pushed through the pain, one fancied a dip in the picturesque Basingstoke Canal, but all returned Cpl Katie Coley, 4-month £400+ tour to Al Udeid home unharmed completing the RAISED challenge. They raised a whopping FOR CANCER £826 for the RAFBF. During her time RESEARCH deployed to the Falkland Islands, SAC Stephanie Pye organised and completed 12 Hours of Hell Charity Event. 12 gruelling workouts in 12 hours consisting of boxercise, spinning, sweat box etc. raising £400+ for Cancer Research. Three of our SAC Chefs had their recipes selected and printed in the first Royal British Legion Cooking for Heroes Cookbook. 16 | Helicon
SACs Connor Mackie, Prem Lama and Phoebe Mitchell attended Bournemouth Air show to promote the Royal British Legion Cooking for
The Catering Section started a project to update and make better use of the space outside the Section HQ. They put a bid in for benches, flower bed planters and fence panels, utilising the skills and knowledge to produce a calming, quiet space. This will be a haven to relax, get some fresh air and enjoy the outdoors away from office
compounds. The Sensory Garden was completed towards the end of 2021, and we look forward to enjoying it throughout the summer. Four chefs detached to RAF Leeming to support Ex. COBRA WARRIOR. Cpl Tom Douch, SACs Jess Murfin, Phoebe Mitchell & Jay Rai set off for two weeks working alongside 3MCS and two chefs from to RAF Benson. They provided catering support for 184 JHC pax, keeping up with delayed mealtimes due to tactical training and night flying missions. October saw SACs Stephanie Pye, Richard Croucher and LAC Tadala Kwelepta deploy on Ex BROKNCLOCK. This is the predeployment training for Ex.
