Justanopinion - As an ex-Tac Fuels type I remember the.North Luffenham exercises well.
From my memory the runway sweepers pitched up well before any aircraft did and swept the tarmac to within an inch of its life, very little support was put onto the ground other than us fuels types and a small amount of force protection bods and the Harriers were generally all back at Cott/Witt at cease of play for the day, unless an unservicability struck, in which case we were left with the aircraft until the morning whilst the pilot and groundcrew jumped in an LDV goeshomeybus.
I'm not saying that if the ball dropped they wouldn't have been able to do the job for real in a fashion but the '9-5 war' antics didn't inspire too much confidence.