Originally Posted by Dan Winterland
''It took me ages to work out Dan Winterland''. Didn't think it was that cryptic.
Yes, that's why they sent me to helicopters - lack of imagination can be a benefit, it stops you thinking too deeply about the spinning lump of stuff holding the aircraft up!
I still have a few of my "fake" name badges lying around somewhere, still remember the story about Scottie talking to the Colonel in the mess at Bessbrook with his namebadge
Hertz Van Rentl, claiming to be the Dutch exchange officer (in a broad Glasgow accent!).
The PMC(or maybe the Staish) at Aldergrove got so worked up by fake name badges that they were banned in the bar. Puma pilot Jan Janiurek walked in one evening and was ejected...
"No silly name badges in the bar! OUT!"
"But it's my real name!"
"OUT.OUT.OUT!"