I thought we had already had AFME Lite. We came out of Aden in November 1967 and some of us moved up to Bahrain (I was on 105 Squadron) where we became part of RAFPG (AFME Lite) under the command of Air Commodore Topham. The Navy, of course, were already resident at Jufair.
Harold Wilson's government decided that they could save a lot of money by disbanding 105 Sqn in January 1968 and replacing it with ARDET (Argosy Detachment) which consisted of 6 aircraft and 9 crews. I did no less than 5 detachments (each lasting 3 1/2 months) between January, 1968 and October, 1971 when we moved out of the Gulf.
Luckily, I am far too old to go back. How do you spell deja vu?