Not Taceval but
81 in Belize at the 6 monthly exercise we had to man everything for 72 hrs with 1 shift, whilst the ready battalion GR3's etc in UK saddled up and moved across the pond. Sat at Butcher radar as the only 1 left alive cause I was down at JOC whebn the OPFOR wasted the radar site. Spots a slow moving contact on the AR3. Informs the rapiers who blind fire and splash 1. But due to exercise constrants i.e. there was only the 1 servicable Puma is allowed to continue its attack. Puma come to a hover over the main and muggins gets call from the Rocks to put some flares up. So I load the Very pistol and let fly. great says the rocks we can see now, as this is the days of stage 1 NVGs and the sodiums around the Williamsom comlex was "whiting out the NVG". Only thing was the para flares were comming down into the rotor disc of the Puma. So a V V irate Puma mate calls on the radio to stop the flares before they do serious rotor damage.
On the subject of blunt dinghy knives used to turn up the Waddo check in to have the Plods confiscate them and then parcel them up to give to the NATO ALM on the TCA. Being german and with no sense of humour he promptly refused to take them from the plod and gave them straight back to us.
Told every skipper I ever had that if we ever had a Plod pax I wanted to do the Pax escort and do the baggage check on them right on the pan!!!