Originally Posted by
Ron Cake
So Transport crews all muck in together when they're down the route do they? In the late 60s they didn't. In the transit hotel at Muhurraq (Britannia House was it - or was that Khormaksar?) the bar was sectioned off by a screen. On one side Officers and on the other, NCO aircrew. You had to lean round where the partition ended at the bar to socialise.
Looking back it all seems a bit daft.
Ron, digging into the memory cells and back 47 years, I think Khormakksar had two. The "Merryfield" IIRC, aircon and near the flight line and therefore used by the aircrew and the Red Sea (?) non-aircon and used by the groundcrew
including gnd eng Os.