Hello S89. It was a landing. Funnily enough I don't remember too many ploughing incidents but we were careful to use grass strips that were firm enough. I do recall a couple of slipping off the tin strips in the field in Germany on the GR3/T4s but this was usually when taxiing to the hides from the main metal strip. My guess is that the Marine Corp would have been a bit more aggressive than us in the use of the aircraft on damp ground.