6Z3 I wasn't

g happy.
In all I think they were selected for their sadistic streak. If it doen't hurt then there is no value.
I remember one visit where I was back within 6 months. I was just about to go into the bang chamber when the wg cdr boss saw me. "You don't want to do that" he said and called me in to his office for a chat and a coffee. Great bloke.
Years later one of the 'real' docs, the anti-sport type, who could explain why exercise was bad for the bends and who enjoyed the Ruddles as much as the next man, turns up at a secret Tornado base in Lincolnshire as the Locum. Still the same bluff humour but clearly lost a large part of the cranium. Couldn't remember whether it was Christmas or Easter or your face from one day to the next.
Too much oxygen perhaps