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Old 17th Apr 2006, 17:40
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eagle 86, further to the USAF exchange on Vulcans. One, Dick Shabot (sp?) was the ex on the Bomber Command Bombing School. Very old-school SAC and totally out of touch with typical brit irreverant humour.

Don't recall one at Finningley but that may have been the BCBS slot once Lindholme closed. Ops 2 at Bawtry was also USAF and nails the fact of USAF exchange. Because he was a foreign national Ops 1 needed a UK side-kick to cover for leave etc, hence Ops 1a was a Flt Lt slot. Whenever Ops 2 went into Ops 1/1a domain he would knock on the door "Lock up your Guard" so they could hide any UK Eyes stuff.

There were a number of NZ and Aussie in the V-force but they were RAF and not exchange.
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