I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis well - but not as a V Force crew. I was at RAF Swanton Morley doing an ATC gliding course as a fill-in between "A" Levels (not too hot) and going to the Towers in Jan 63. We listened to our elders and betters discussing what was going on, and those of us due to join the RAF in the near future hoping that whatever was going on would not finish before we were trained aircrew. Oh, how little we knew, and understood even less.