A crew turned up at FJ station to collect a large 4 jet that had diverted to it. Unfortunately, FJ station had called an exercise just before they arrived and the large crew were treated with great suspicion. Their entry to the FJ station was greatly delayed by the SWO running the main gate. He would not even phone Ops for confirmation of their mission and they were all lined up as suspected intruders for a long time until their home station started to make noises to FJ station hierarchy about their take-off time.
It was a mission in support of the civil power and the large crew included several very hairy members of another civilian force but wearing standard flying suits. Group was very irate at delay in launch, the FJ SWO was spoken to at length by higher paid help. In retaliation he reported on the scruffy and deplorable state of NCO members of the crew to their home station SWO. Home station SWO did not check the facts, the NCO’s had been on AOCs parade 3 days earlier, and he dully spoke at length and in derogatory terms to the 4 jet crew NCOs about their standards etc etc
I will never forget the Sqn Cdrs face when a very irate NZ captain asked loudly how he could charge the SWO. It was eventually all resolved amicably, but I have always wondered what damage it did to the SWO mafia.