Not long after we got our Chinooks (but after FI) a 7 Sqn ac was training at Hullavington, which is next to the M4. One of the crew noticed a tanker pulling into the side with a wheel on fire; the Captain landed on the other side of a fence by the tanker, and one crewman leapt out with fire extinguisher to help fight the fire. In the meantime they had prewarned the Crash Crew at Hullavington, and quickly hopped back to the airfield and picked up firemen with some heavy duty fire extinguishing kit and went back to the scene. By the time two fire engines from the local brigade arrived the fire was out and the guys were getting their kit back on the aircraft. Once all the smoke had dissipated it was seen that the tanker was actually a beer tanker rather than anything more inflammable.
The crew let the Sqn know, and thought nothing more of it. However, about a week later an invitation from the brewery arrived for a visit to their establishment, which was one of the biggest in South Wales. Two coaches were provided by said brewery, and as many of the Sqn as wanted to (air and ground crew) set off. A very quick tour of the beer making facilities was done on arrival, and then we were all invited to the directors dining room, where an extremely well organised proverbial with seemingly never ending food and drink was laid on. Then on boarding the coaches for the return to Odiham, those that could still see found that the luggage spaces had been loaded with even more cases of their products for the rest of the guys who hadn't been able to make it. Some of the cans even made it all the way back.