Originally Posted by
ORAC
Nobody wanted to get bombed back - and Libya was too close for their liking.
Even we were twitchy as Int forecast a risk of a retaliatory strike at the SBA in Cyprus - I was one of 3 reinforcement controllers flown out to 280SU along with 4 x F4 and 2 VC-10s to Akrotiri for about 4 weeks.
And that's exactly what happened in Aug 86 during my first OO duty having joined 84 Sqn in June. Two co-ordinated attacks on the airfield, one via the not-crash gate (they rammed it and couldn't get through) from Ladies Mile and one from the ridgeline to the North using a mortar with no baseplate. Neither attack was successful due to the numpties who carried them out - two very minor injuries, both to service wives.