BEagle, readiness is something else - part of the contract so to speak with accommodation on base available if you wish
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We used to hold that 2 hrs too with par time 2hrs to scramble being under the hour. On callout this chap living only 20 minutes away ambles in in flying suit confident that he will have been too late and they would go without his services. I was alert to his plans, intercepted him in the car park and drove him straight to the aircraft where I had already loaded his goon suit and parachute.
Up the steps, doors closed, and they were off in just 55 minutes
- for 9 hours LOL.
As he was not working his passage, simply a waste of space with the execs ignoring all the signs.