Oh, yes - I'd forgotten about the HaveQuick and the souq watches in the earpiece. Problem with that was that the fella who operated the box had his watch set 2 minutes fast, so the rest of the crew had to remind him when the actual time for the change came around.
We didn't have the luxury of RAF caterers, but we did have an exceptional bunch of squippers who could turn their hands to anything - including cooking some really good meals for us all.
Did anyone else have to lug all the Det crypto around the theatre? Climbing up the 37 steps to the pax bay in the Galaxy with deployment kit plus 5 white sacks of that stuff made for an interesting start to the whole Op phase; at least we didn't have to deal with that lot during the 2+ month work-up in UAE.