Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Ah! Well ....................
JHQ Rheindahlen had an Army entrance and a RAF entrance. The passes were essentially Red, or Blue, and in addition to usual military ID.. JHQ passes were on a chain lanyard. Many folk had a spouse employed in the other half of JHQ.
Thus one day my assistant received a phone call from his army-employed civvy wife for a tryst in Leystrasse.
To exchange passes. The system was so fool-proof as to allow a red pass into the RAF side, and vice-versa.
Rumour was that a a Bass beer bottle label worked on occasion.
I don't recall there being any embargo between using either end of the building. I always used to go in at Entrance 6 (Crufts' Entrance) because it was in the same direction as my quarter.