Originally Posted by
ex82watcher
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.
I remember the incident very well, it caused a lot of manure to impact the rotary air mover! I remember Suzanne too but don't recall her surname. I recall working with her when she was doing some supervised controlling on 3B and actually controlling John. She said he was in deep trouble when she got home because he hadn't said "goodbye honey" when she handed him over to Lakenheath. Lovely lady, gave me a USAF Air Traffic badge which we were allowed to wear on our ties along with my equivalent rank badge tie pin which I also wore.
Watton still is a one horse town (horse still missing)and the High Street is virtually dead since Tesco moved in just out of the town centre. Full of take aways, charity shops, cafes and barbers now with hardly any footfall. They're buildin houses like they were going in a fire sale and no facilities to cater for all the new residents. Still nothing to do there. Glad I live out of town in one of the villages nearby.