Whilst on a 56(F) APC detachment to Akrotiri I was walking with three others from the airfield gate towards the Survival Equipment Section (OPS block area) to start work for 7am.
As we passed the hangers the very young rather naive airman who was with us and on his first Cyprus detachment suddenly started hallucinating .
"A spaceman a spaceman I've just seen a spaceman he was shouting.
Of course none of us had seen one.
We had to explain to him that it must have been the result of his first encounter with the joy and perils of Keo/ brandy sours/kokinelli the previous evening and that such apparitions could become quite common during the 6 week detachment.
I think that we managed to convice him.
But why did those noisy spaceships have to take off so early?