Beagle, this one was a Lancer not a Gauntlet, (circa 1980) but the protocol was the same.
If Paul Adams was known as 'Grizzly' in Belize 88 and also parked a cab in the Ems he is another example of the good dying young. As was the chap who went on a one way trip to Belize, (GR3) whose name I forget sadly.
It was a USAF/USMC suicide posting in the latter half of the seventies. Thankfully not when Maj Chas Mudie USAF was driving a T4 with me in the back.