Diego Garcia and R.N. catering
In ten years as a GE I only suffered three bouts of food poisoning, one as related in another thread was on a JACIG to Kiev, the second was some dodgy liver from the Sergeants mess at Lyn and the third was the result of an invitation to a Barbie with the R.N. at Diego on a Nav Trainer that went Middle East and Indian Ocean. Not that the Navy were satisfied with nobbling the GE they had an attempt at the whole crew and it was only that, as a trainer we had some spare bods on board that after due deliberation a crew was cobbled together and we departed for the next stop which was Bahrain and even then the better of the two Navs, (better in his state of health that was ) spent most of the leg stretched on the Para seats wishing for death as a relief!
And on the subject of Bahrain the supremacy of the Hercules world was demonstrated in yet another example of its organisation and nous when , at the commencement of GW1, a small party of GEs and Svc were detached to Bahrain as a handling party for Hercs passing through. By having the RAFLO already in situ the Herc Det was accommodated in flats in downtown Manama together with transport already organised, all this being operated from outside the remit of RAF Bahrain ( whose CO by coincidence , Gp Capt Rocky Goodall was my boss on 16 at Laarbruch ), until a bid for control was made which started with a request from O.C. MT at Bahrain for us to change our transport, a very nice air conditioned saloon, as our car was bigger and better than the one they could get for OC Bahrain and it was felt not to be fitting for the Herc techies to be seen to be outdoing the Boss. One up for Albert!