Slight Thread slip.
Chevvron,
My cousin, a Captain in the US Air Force, was based at Bentwaters air base when it closed down, although he stayed on in England. He told me that rather than take all of their tool kits back to the States, a very large trench was bulldozed on the airfield and tons (literally) of tools were just dumped in and later covered in a couple of feet of soil.
Two days after the last Americans left, the locals dug the pit out and suddenly local markets had stalls of brand new tools on sale. Eventually, after the trench was virtually empty, the local Plods tried to trace the culprits for 'stealing' tools. Fat chance!!!
