blimey, yes at one point.
The transport force folded a lot of aircraft and had loads of loadmasters going spare (bit like Nimrod crews last year). We all got one each. No one worked out exactly what we were to do with them.
We muddled through and one, to be Fair, even got a commision through this service to maritime
. Our guy was worked up to load sonobuoys, load the retro, take photos, order the rations and cook pies.
He had b*lls of steel. He was taking pictures from the port beam when the May rolled in to us. The May pushed, we pulled, and the loadie got it all on film.
There was a processing error at the photo section and the negatives got destroyed.
After we had seen the evidence