caz,
Your posts simply reinforce your total lack of understanding of how SH works.
There is no met briefing to attend, the ops are 24 hours and you self brief at the crewroom or ops room.
I worked at Aldergrove for over two years, and have no idea where the met office was.
I fed myself from the fridge in the crewroom, and scrounged food from army units all over the province.
I almost never went to breakfast in the mess, as I was either at work, or asleeep during its opening hours.
You say:
but I should have realised that SH crews are made of sterner stuff and that such namby-pamby ideas do not apply to them.
That is an insult, which you should withdraw.
SH and VIP fixed wing ops are chalk and cheese. As are assumptions and fact.