The Helidet Goat & The Bullworker
Two I remember from my tours in NI
There was the Helidet Goat that lived around the Officer's Mess. It was tolerated until it developed the unsavoury habit of pi**ing on the heater intakes which caused a disgusting smell in the Portakabins. It was finally banished after it tried to roger a Rock Squadron Leader.
The Bullworker incident was when one of the Para Battalions was based at the Mill and a stick were being transported to one of the outstations. Being Paras they formed a human chain to pass their bergens into the mighty Wessex that was turning and burning on the pan. Unfortunately one of the Paras had put a compressed Bullworker in his bergen and as sods law would have it, this was the one that got dropped. As it hit the ground the Bullworker extended, jumped out of the bergen and went up into the main rotor disc. The pilot and crewman's faces were a picture. Two regrets: I didn't have my camera with me to capture the moment and I never saw the incident signal which must have been a masterpiece.