semmern,
Glad you are enjoying the thread. I enjoyed a wonderful month long deployment to Norway in February 1994, as part of Exercise Winter Deployment. We stayed in a very pleasant hotel in Oslo, and enjoyed some great nights out at the Winston Churchill (is it still going?). As the Winter Olympics were on, the seven of us (5 real crew and two imposter GEs) adopted a sporting theme in our evening activities, a "sporting theme". We decided to try the suggestion that we were a team of 7 man Bobsleigh specialists, and that it was being trialled at those games. Amazing how many people took the bait, and wanted to know when we were running etc. Being of a flight from one of the tactical squadrons, further bull was provided that we were only allowed to run the Bob course at nighttime, and used NVG equipment. Of course, the front end were "expert" in this subject, quickly attracting a following, so to speak! The other main memory of Norway was the scenery, and goodness me, nothing compares in winter. I was a very lucky bloke, and have many happy memories of a great country.
Smudge
