One occasion few years back we were doing a sortie on our way to an airshow in Holland, being a groundie was always interesting in the Kipper fleet , eating, sleeping and boredom 3 things we all got used too.
Anyway we were over the North sea buzzing around some naval ship as they do, I had the head set on and listening to the crew nattering away. All of a sudden as we passed down the Stbd side at what must have been 200 odd feet somebody piped up that the ship had a red flag raised, that was quickly followed by a power up and a sharp exit. Only later on the skipper came down and said red flag means live firing of small arms.
Going to miss them days of deployments and the stories.
