I remember my dad had a couple of stickers on his car he picked up from a Lakenheath (or Maybe Upper Heyford...) airshows the year after I guess. One was of an F-111 with the tag line something like 'Hey Gaddafi, here's Lakenheath bombing your ass' or similar.
He would then have been involved in dealing with the upswing in funding provided to the IRA when they launched operations in the UK, and for many many years after.