Picture the scene between 62-65 at a well known RAF Station in Wiltshire.
As part of our job in SSQ we would be detailed as the 'Quarantine Controller' which required the checking of Inoculation Certificates for Aircrew & passengers. So one morning very early there I am on the Flight Deck of a Brit when I discover that the Skippers docs are out of date and he just happens to be the CO of the Sqdn. 'You can't go says I get off my Aircraft says he'. So I called out the SMO who arrived in his PJ's and promply parked his car in the middle of the Runway. Oh was I popular!
Same Station same job Saturday Afternoon Aircraft about to depart for Idris. One Pasenger docs out of date 'you can't go says I'. The skipper says 'If you can get it sorted we will wait'. Problem sorted Aircraft departs 10 minutes late and I get the thick end of an Ear bashing from Operations and a 'request' to submit my report as to why I delayed the depature in triplicate by 1700hrs.
Ah happy days and I haven't even mentioned about the day I set SSQ on fire!!
CS