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Il Duce
Beady Eye, yes good point about D and D blowing their own trumpet. What I was trying to highlight was that the article in Pulse was written as if no one else but V watch of NATS was involved from an ATC perspective. I'm sure the boys and girls in D and D would echo that "it's all part of the job", but it wouldn't have done them, or the editors of Pulse, any harm if they got a mention outside of any RAF publications.
<shrug> In my 6 years experience of being a D&D controller I had only one 'mention' for assisting an aircraft in distress and that was a letter to my boss from SRG (was a civil not a military aircraft). Far as I was concerned it was all part of the job and I never expected any recognition outside of being paid to do it
Dunno what London Mil and other current D&D controllers think though.
BD