Princess Royal Barracks
When the Army took over Gutersloh in 1993 there was in place a rule that stated the airfield should be returnable to RAF usage within 30 days. This probably made a degree of sense at the time but prevented us from making small, but sensible, changes to the infrastructure to reflected its new use. Given the current usage of the other clutch airfields now the 30 Day Rule does not seem to have stood the test of time.
What many of us could not understand was why air trooping flights could not use Gutersloh as they had done while it was owned by the RAF? According the Air Traffic Flt Lt who worked in the tower, there was a further agreement that permitted only 40 (free?) military aircraft movements each year. For those of us who had previously air trooped through Gutersloh to go to Bunde or Osnatraz, being based in Gutersloh, on an active airfield, but having to travel to Munster or Paderborn to fly back to Blighty made no sense whatsoever. Clearly far greater minds than minder thought up that piece of brilliance.
Anyway, it was a great place where I spent many drunken and happy times.