RAF Sandringham… Hooter goes off but does not sound on the patch. Vehicle with tannoy on roof has been destroyed by 2nd inject as it was parked outside the PBX when that was hit by the 1st. Comms chaos...
Simulated armoured vehicles (Sherpas with bin bags on windows) dispatched to individual crew addresses on patch. First Sherpa has bags taped on outside of windows by dull (or genius) SWO's gang. Running low on bags they use bodge tape to cover windscreen; driver spends next hour trying to remove bodge tape while wearing NBC gloves.
Driver drives through the rain with non-functioning wipers and starts banging on the doors of OMQs occupied by 6'. Only wives make it to the door as 6' are away on exercise. Approaching lunchtime before they start looking for the other sqns with no sorties generated due to UXB cordon at officers' mess…
Sticky mess removed from windscreen by some chemical the groundcrew have found; worked in seconds. Bus dispatched to the patch for next run. After driving in slow circles for a few hours the windscreen falls out. Seems the rubber was more of a challenge than the bodge tape, but time and vibration did it in the end.