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Old 23rd Mar 2021, 22:46
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ORAC
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280SU Mount Olympus.

Only 5 living-in mess members, honesty bar (we rotated OIC and the the monthly stock check was a happy hour where we drank the excess stock) and treated like lords by the local staff.

In the winter you could ski in the morning and waterski in the afternoon. In the summer it was cool and long evenings were spent in the restaurant in Platres run my the local mess manager.

VC-10 crews used to check-in before taxi at BZ to book parties because we allowed them to bring in their cabin crew.

Abiding memories - surviving being driven over a cliff into a storm drain and ending up inverted with our heads just above the water by the commander of US U2 operations who was making a 48 hour visit to Cyprus to see how they operated. Turned out he’d been drinking all day. US embassy stepped, he disappeared and it never happened...

Leaving the mess at AKR and driving back up the mountain with the lights out to see if anyone was going the other way, four wheel drifting on the narrow track Ben’s along the Grand Canyon with a 400ft vertical drop on one side and a cliff on the other and getting back in under 45 minutes...

Sky-diving out the mess windows into the snow drifts below.....
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