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HAS59
If it was the same guy on Nimrods, we always thought the name came from his very solid landings.
A favourite trick by the ops staff was to put his name up on the ops board as Thompson.
When he saw it he would comment on the miss-spelling of his name. which inevitably had the ops officer call out to one of his staff 'Task the 'P' out of Thomson.'
Nice bloke though.
Or after repeatedly complaining about the misspelling of his name with the addition of the letter ‘P’, he was renamed ‘Thummer’ Thomson!
One of my favourites was for the unpopular flt cdr whose office was at the end of the corridor of power. Crate - c**t right at the end.