DaveJB
"I think the average IQ of a Nimrod crew was probably pretty high,"
I was the least qualified person (educationally!) on the crew, and I was the skipper.
About Afg/Iraq stories.
I seem to recall a dit about a certain co-pilot's beret that is currently adorning some local tribesman in Afg?
And the tale of the arrival of one of the first MR2s into Basra (as told to me by one of the crew) after it had been declared 'safe', shortly followed by the crew taking cover under the tables in the airport lounge as the rounds landed always made me giggle. It was the matter of fact manner in which he described all hell breaking loose.
Hearing these old stories, sometimes for the umpteenth time, is good medicine for a broken heart. It will never totally mend but the pain is eased.