Originally Posted by
denachtenmai
Talking of Mineval/Maxeval/Taceval, we had a det. to Laarbruch and it turned out that a Taceval was in operation.
Everyone was in masks and protective clothing.
A couple of us went down to SHQ to exchange GBP into DM's, over 12 to the £ IIRC
, there we were accosted for not being properly dressed for the occasion.
This state went on for about another 2 days, no one had told RAFG that we never participated in any 'Vals. even at home.
Ah, but, what you really needed during such times was......an orange bomb / gas / nuke / chemical / bullet proof armband marked 431 MU....wearing such did attract the purists ire from time to time, but non more so than one at Wildenrath one day, who, after the equivalent of the Reith lecture proclaimed he was personally going to ensure this sorry state of affairs would not be allowed to continue and we
would be attired and playing with everybody else in future.......alas.!
Laarbruch also served Vino Plonko in the airmen's mess. Due to a series of "unfortunate incidents ", the MU driving section decided it would be a good idea to give the engineers a few days " helpful " driving instruction. This was actually quite interesting, however, we arrived at Laarbruch for lunch. All was going reasonably well at this point, until, we dined and duly consumed the one permitted small glass of plonk as we did when working there. ......the remaining days training did not involve Laarbruch and lunch.