We had to go out to the live aircraft on QRA two by two as well. I thought it strange.
Post taxi checks after a zero-two and I was with another chap in the bomb bay changing an upper anti-collision beacon. I was up the front of the bay, "Old Yeller" just behind my bum, doing the job; Nez was holding the torch and minding the tools. The snoop woke up from slumber in his Tardis to find the bomb bay hatch open and voices coming from inside so he climbed up through the hatch, pistol drawn. Nez hit him smack in the middle of the white hat with a hammer. Off to Ely with a fractured skull. Live weapons make people nervous.