[QUOTE]I'd forgotten about the 'hat police'. That started in KAF when the WO scribbly was tasked by the Detco to stand outside the UK DFAC and tell people to put their hats on.[QUOTE]
I remember the Det Co, a Gp Capt, appointing himself OC Hat Police at Ali Al Salem in 2003; he used to stand outside the cookhouse and bawl at people (very dignified for an OF5). He bawled at the wrong person one day - an Army One-Star (and my Boss, who I as a mere SO3 was driving that day) who also happened to be COMBRITFOR Kuwait; cue a rather a pointed 'discussion' on the cookhouse steps with the One-Star on send and the Gp Capt on receive. The Gp Capt was still a Gp Capt in 2007 when I ran into him in D.C.