It was with 29(F) Sqn following a few weeks out with the F8s in Landivisiau in France. The F8 was one aircraft that the Tornado F3 could mix with without losing 5 degrees a second in a turning fight to!
The French Sqn was 12F and their emblem was a gun toting duck. They also had a few ducks as mascots in a pond outside the Sqn HQ and one of the RAF crew, who got made Combat Ready (CR) in Landivisiau, had to follow the 12F tradition of drinking something nasty before diving in the pond to round up a duck or 2!
Of course, there were never any initiation ceremonies for getting CR - that would be wrong and childish!
I can't remember much more as I destroyed those memories with 1664 lager some time back...
LJ
PS. See page 19 of this (
http://www.ecpad.fr/wp-content/uploa...Ldv-validé.pdf) to see a picture of a duck being caught.