I can only imagine the reception ITK got with certain members of management!
It seemed more than a few could not "take" a joke....despite being one themselves!
I wish I had kept the Memo that I issued while serving as the "Acting Chief Pilot (Unpaid) and Chief Engineer (Acting and unpaid) at the Papa Charlie Operation in Iran.
John Black took great exception to the tone of my Memo wherein I called for all assigned Staff to work as one in achieving our Operational Goals and Commitments.
That I was the only person present, had an Alouette and Jet Ranger all to myself, and flew both of the machines into scheduled maintenance while waiting for the rest of the Crew to return from Bandar Abbas.....seemed to escape Black.
I guess he was still a bit sensitive to such things as when crewed we routinely re-arranged the White Washed Rocks surrounding the Wind Sock pole.....from "Papa Charlie" to things like "Here for the Beer" and " Uckers ya F@ckers"....which caused him to suffer Apoplexy and kick the rocks all over eastern Iran.