matkat, yes, the 'wee man' did indeed make the long journey south! I'm sure that, as a team boss, he was a bit of a task master, but what a top chap - particularly when we needed QTRs during our Boris-watching sessions!
As for MAMS teams, I always found them to be hard-working and, if the trainee captain ever deigned to talk to them rather than sitting on the flight deck, sipping coffee and communicating only via the ALM, he would find them very task-orientated.
Having watched the team (on more than one occasion) sweating to sort out a VC10 freight off-load/on-load in sweltering heat at Freetown whilst the self-important ALM faffed and tutted, they have my every sympathy. But I'm sure that others have different recollections - people are only human, after all. Whatever, it was all the same air force and "Movers v. Loadies" is surely something which by now has hopefully been consigned to the trash can of history.