Over 20 years experience of using Brize and Lyneham to get around the globe as both ground and aircrew. Some awful experiences in that time, including a fiasco in washington when a VC10 had to return with an engine problem. Crew left PDQ and a full passenger list were left with a mover to find and send them to a hotel, no bags returned (too difficult), no kit whatsoever and no dollars to spend. The hotel was nice, but our best uniform was not really welcome in the facilities, the shop quickly ran out of toothbrushes etc and I had been in the same kit for a long long time by the time they eventually sorted us out with a flight the next day. The hotel didn't have currency exchange so we paid for every tiny thing with our own credit cards, even cans of coke!! Abandoned springs to mind, I was ashamed to be RAF amongst a majority of army guys.