On the actual Tacevals however the staish Air Cdre Eric Stacey was a wild card. He would not mix live armed guards and unarmed personnel. We were all issued with live ammunition.
Ahh I remember the live armed in Germany, well I say live armed as the magazine was bundled up in plastic which would require some severe work with ones teeth to get through.... In the day when every round was accounted and signed for, lose one and your deep in it....
However on the range having fought through the plastic to get a mag to use up life ex ammo, one lets rip down range to find I only fired off 18 rounds out of 20... Asking an Armourer what gives, he points out that they would often get bored filling them, so it was anyone's guess how many rounds were in the mags
