TWU
Don't write many posts, but feel the original question wasn't answered (cocktails = nostalgia)...
There was a magic about TWU that made the place(s) special. For the stude, perhaps it was about being made (for the first time?) to feel genuinely part of fast jet flying; operating an aircraft instead of just flying it. Suddenly you were an "adult" who flew, fought, questioned, debriefed, bantered and felt part of a team...indeed at times led it? Plus, the instructors were just as happy to be there as you were.
As to Chivenor, what's not to like...sun, sea, Barnstaple, Saunton Sands beach, the Gribble Inn... just a fabulous part of the UK.
Perhaps testimony to this is a later experience of Brawdy which on the face of it would seem like second fiddle but turned out to be the most rewarding, entertaining , fun, enriching, put-a-huge-smile-on-your-face-tour I ever had...Puddy, Phil F, Chalky...just a few of the myriad characters ...
But back to the grist of the thread....stories of Chivenor; they abound, but my threepenny worth is getting stopped by the feds on the way back from the "Snatch" when duty driver of the stude wheels which were inconspicuously painted in zebra stripes...what could possibly go wrong...