Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Something doesn’t add up with your last post. I have dropped/fired weapons at numerous AWRs around the UK but not once did we land in the local vicinity in order to shag and booze our way around the local hostelries. We tended to pitch up, do our weapons stuff and fly away home.
BV
We had regular visiting detachments at West Freugh when I was there in the 90's. The Harrier detachments, in particular, shone out as being most likely to attract claims from local landlords. Some of those landlords were undoubtedly chancers (like the owner of The Crown in Portpatrick), but most were fairly honest. Very common to have detachments stay for around a week at a time back then.