Originally Posted by
farefield
"A unit so far up itself I have rarely encountered"
Haven't we seen that so often, the proprietorial attitude on some of these little bases which were meant to serve the wider RAF?
Ascension
Akrotiri
Mountbatten etc
And then I started to read this thread and it just sounded the same;
"You're out of the service now, and this is ours, bu**er off."
I had a bad experience at Mt Pleasant last year - totally new security introduced without notice and a real pain - in an area that is clearly at serious risk of terrorism (NOT) - after all - almost everyone trying to get into the airport arrived through it ..................... distinct impression it was a bunch of bored individuals with nothing better to do