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Old 23rd Oct 2006, 16:33
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greycoat
 
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Tis a shame that we many pages of anecdotes relating to poor service. It is easy to retreat into the 'well they are not one of us why should we help' mentality but it is also possible to try to help. Perhaps things are better away from the MOBs when the movs and sqn personnel socialise together on dets (I'm thinking Op WARDEN between the GWs when I had the 'privilege' to have MT and Movs as my responsibilty) and favours can be earned and repaid. However, I did feel a bit sorry for the transit pax given the poor facilities, especially the Turdis WC in summer temps. Although on one occasion we had a distress call from a C-130 homeward bound from Georgia or somewhere similar after one of those Open Skies/Wpn inspection trips requesting a toilet stop, preferably porcelain, since the team had developed food poisoning and had filled the on-board facilities. We managed to get them to the food mall but denied all responsibility for their actions thereafter. So we could be human occasionally. Or another time when a VIP 146 dropped in and we made an effort to get the steward to the commissary before it shut for the the day because the following day was one of the 'no fly' days which meant everything shut and his VIP would go hungry. I don't pretend our attitude was perfect but it didn't hurt to put yourself in the other person's shoes occasionally, and in any case we still suffered the same start and finish from LYE or BZN. And I hope that the Comp A system still works as well as it did back then, when it did seem that we could all pull together as a team.
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