Brian Carlin

Boy Entrant; The Recollections of a Royal Air Force Brat Brian Carlin

"You're in the Air Force now!" Yelled the corporal drill instructor and with those chilling words what had begun as a boyish adventure suddenly became a very serious, grownup type of situation. But, there was no turning back - certainly not after accepting the Queen's shilling - even if you were only 15 years old. The author takes us on the absorbing true story of his induction and passage through rigorous months of military training as a Royal Air Force Boy Entrant, which would mould and shape him and his fellow 15 and 16-year old "brats" into valuable service members, whose destiny was to become the "backbone" of Britain's 1960s Royal Air Force as its future NCOs and officers.(Over 400 pages in the print edition)