Bluesuit wrote:Minevals, maxevals and Tacevals, all a bit different in the 80s and 90s, I usually spent 12 hours locked in a HAS with a rubber face on for most of it.
Things only livened up when we had some scrap F-4s to practice ac recovery on, by then I used to set up the engineering 'injects' and the troops used to like a bigger challenge each time. Last one ended up with one flat on its belly and only a small a crane to recover it, so it required some ingenuity to get it back on its undercarriage without overloading the crane. But the guys loved it and learned some useful techniques - much better than doing nothing!
I'm partly to blame for your happy days spent in a HAS, I was the Project Coordinator for the ASM project at Coningsby so - sorry !!!!
I was usually on BDR as well and to be fair, like you, I enjoyed some of the BDR tasks, a bit of fun to break the routine. As a bodger by nature it suited me fine ! I did enjoy setting up some of the injects too, the more devious and challenging the better !
Once the ASM project was virtually completed I then became the CANDE man sitting around in either the WOC or AWOC, not quite so much fun although one of my assistants was a Comcen WRAF, pretty glamorous even in cabbage kit. Sadly she was also one of the most miserable buggers I've ever met, I'd have swapped her for any old ugly but cheerful sod on the Station !!!