Just one big happy family...
Many of us had many, many friends, some more special than others, from our time in Africa.
I just never cared enough to present one with anything really special except a carefully-crafted wind-up or a thrashing at darts (if I could manage that) but SASless seemed to care more about that sort of thing that I did when it came to ze French.
My best one was gifting a British helo pilot colleague a really close look at our Dornier 328 when he decided, one sleepy afternoon with nothing much going on, to just ease across the departure track from PH NAF Base on his way from Eket to DNPO. Why bother making an extra call? We spotted a rather gaudy B212 at 1,500 feet in good time and then just held something less on our altimeter to cross from his 7 to his 5 o'clock with 250 knots on the clock. Of course I checked the next day with House One to find out if this had the desired effect or not, when they told me that yes it did! So that was okay then.