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Old 10th May 2011, 19:08
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Art, aye, they didn't half pick 'em.

In one exercise they issued ONE envelope to the first crew with instructions that the rest of us were to log what we heard:

The scramble duly came and we all recorded APPLECART. At the debrief was we were shown the code word. At least the first two letters were the same:
APOCATHARY.

And an airborne authentication which we also received properly in morse:
BANDOLARO.

At least NOURISHMENT just before lunch was clearly understood. They switched to alphanumerics a bit later.
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