Our first thank you from South Sudan and & BOM Update

Well, only a couple of days ago I wrote about our guys and gals in South Sudan and already we have received our first thank you message.

Lynne from QLD only joined us in December and her first quilt went off to South Sudan and it has just arrived.  This thank you email arrived yesterday for Lynne and I from her happy recipent.

I was lucky enough to receive my personalised quilt and laundry bag today– it’s absolutely beautiful & certainly has been made with great care and love!  I also received a box full of goodies – with help from Lynne’s friend Rae  - once again thank you!! You have no idea how much happiness you have bought to Australia house – the rest of the members are waiting in anticipation now for theirs to arrive!

I was all set to include some photos that our recipient sent showing the personalised label that Lynne attached on the quilt as well as the Aussie Hero label.  I had the photos loaded and text written and then realised the label was "Personalised" i.e. showed the recipient's name! LOL  Glad I caught that!

And a thank you message for Pauline

I would just like to say thank you so much for the quilt, laundry bag and the goodies. It is so nice for someone like your self to go out of their way to make gifts for us it really puts a smile on our dials to know that there are people at home thinking of us during our deployment.  

Now time for a Block of the Month (BOM) update.

During the last sewing day on the 2nd and when Terry came over on Monday we managed to put together several quilt kits which will be sewn together at the next couple of sewing days.  I thought you would like to see the BOMs and how fabulous they look together.

  

First up some September BOMs.

These are a few of the OCT/NOV BOM that were sent to me and so I am keeping them to put them together.   Excuse blurry picture - it was taken on Caroline's iphone but it gives you the idea.

Now we move on to December''s wonky nine patch blocks.  

As always I think it is safe to say that these blocks result in some of my favourite quilts!

A question of Rank

During a call with Angela this morning she pointed out that lots of you civvie types out there don't know what the rank abbreviations stand for nor the service they repesent.  We decided that I need to put a rank chart on the blog and I thought that was a great idea ....add it to my list.  Well, it didn't stay on the "To Do" list very long as Angela mentioned it to Amy who straight away got it organised so here you are!  A complete list of the Ranks of the Defence Force.   Hope that helps.

 Australian Defence Ranks

Navy

Abbreviation	Ranking
ADML	Admiral
VADM	Vice Admiral
RADM	Rear Admiral
CDRE	Commodore
CAPT	Captain
CMDR	Commander
LCDR	Lieutenant Commander
LEUT	Lieutenant
SBLT	Sub Lieutenant
ASLT	Acting Sub Lieutenant
MIDN	Midshipman
WO-N	Warrant Officer of the Navy
WO	Warrant Officer
CPO	Chief Petty Officer
PO	Petty Officer
LS	Leading Seaman
AB	Able Seaman
SMN	Seaman

Air Force

Abbreviation	Ranking
ACM	Air Chief Marshal
AIRMSHL	Air Marshal
AVM	Air Vice-Marshal
AIRCDRE	Air Commodore
GPCAPT	Group Captain
WGCDR	Wing Commander
SQNLDR	Squadron Leader
FLTLT	Flight Lieutenant
FLGOFF	Flying Officer
PLTOFF	Pilot Officer
OFFCDT	Officer Cadet
WOFF-AF	Warrant Officer of the Air Force
WOFF	Warrant Officer
FSGT	Flight Sergeant
SGT	Sergeant
CPL	Corporal
LAC/W	Leading Aircraftman/ Aircraftwoman
AC/W	Aircraft man/ Aircraftwoman
NCOCDT	Non-Commissioned Officer Cadet

Army

GEN	General
LTGEN	Lieutenant General
MAJGEN	Major General
BRIG	Brigadier
COL	Colonel
LTCOL	Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ	Major
CAPT	Captain
LT	Lieutenant
2LT	2nd Lieutenant
RSM-A	Regimental Sergeant Major of the Army
WO1	Warrant Officer Class 1
WO2	Warrant Officer Class 2
SSGT	Staff Sergeant
SGT	Sergeant
CPL/BDR	Corporal/ Bombardier
LCPL/LBDR	Lance Corporal/ Lance Bombardier
PTE	Private

This table is now available on a page listed at the top of the blog page for you to reference whenever you get a special request.

Thanks Amy!

Till next time.................keep spreading the word and happy stitching!