Originally Posted by
Doctor Cruces
Don't remember that, however if I was off shift and they didn't stay long.......
I well remember the Agressor controllers working from ERD when Neat was off air for major work for a couple of weeks or so. Very exciting working with them and interesting too. I remember one particular, very small Puerto Rican Captain called Charlie. HE used to get very excited when he was directing a fight and I think the Agressors could have heard him without a radio! He had the whole ops room in stitches one day when he reprted to one of the aircraft that he had "bogies on his nose". Not being British he was somewhat confused by all the laughter. Some good times, but my most dismal posting and I hated most of it until I came back later as an NCO and things had improved somewhat.
Yes,I remember the Aggressor controllers,and the Puerto Rican,though I didn't know his name,I don't know if they were pilots or fighter controllers,but they always wore flying suits.I can still hear the shouts of "knock it off,Knock it off" coming from consoles 7A/B.
I can understand why you thought ER a dismal posting,I always thought of Watton as a one-horse town...without the horse.For myself,it was the best time of my life !
There was another small incident,that you may remember if you were on watch,when in the evening, when the entrance barrier wasn't manned,and the front door had to be unlocked by one of you airmen from the ops room,when one of our assistants,having made the request,wasn't prepared to wait,and snatched the keys from the desk,and let himself out.ISTR that caused some ripples.
The USAF liason officer at that time was Suzanne Heckinger,I think,having replaced Bill Shed.Her husband,John was an F111 driver at Lakenheath.Don't know if he was on the raid.