Excellent thread.
I'd like to second Wokkameister's vote for the squippers; our 2 lads on Op Jena in GW1 were worth their weight in paladium (usually to be found working way outside their specialisation, and very effectively too).
- Then there were the cooks (forerunners of TCSU) who saw us right wherever we were - Norwegian huts, W German beech forest, Otterburn or sand-side, always producing the goods.
- Lineys, Airworkies and Reems (yes, even the Reems on an independent Sqn were worth having around) who kept the aircraft serviceable and available under sometimes very demanding circumstances.
- The Regt lads who'd accompany SH wherever we went, culminating in the lads who manned the 2nd M134 on the Chinooks in the above-mentioned unpleasantness. Oh, and "Ape" the pup-rescuer, seeing off the Croat louts then giving mouth-to-nose resuscitation to the dog they were tormenting. Top people.
A big 2 thumbs-up to them all
