Got one for you...
I recently returned from Basra on a flight along with a team of Herc engineers. We were supposed to catch a Tristar home, but its DIRCM went t!ts and it diverted to Bahrain. Albert Air laid on 4 Hercs at no notice in order to ferry the Tristar passengers out to Bahrain and collect the incoming grunts.
One of the waiting Herc engineers who was due to fly out on the Tristar approached the Muppet WO in the terminal to ask if the engineers could be released from the departure lounge (read "Mover concentration camp") for a short while in order to help the few remaining Herc boys prepare the aircraft, thereby hastening everyone's trip home. The WO snapped something rude like "The RAF doesn't depend on engineers, you know" and sent them back into Mover Belsen.
We spent the whole night waiting in Basra while the handful of poor knackered boys outside prepared the Hercs. Meanwhile, a bunch of qualified Herc engineers scratched their @rses incarcerated in the Terminal.
Tw@t
Last edited by fatter albert; 30th April 2005 at 22:19.