aeroid,
given your units served with the 'K' and mine our paths will almost certainly have crossed at one time or another. My 'K' time was 242 (stude) 47, 48,(FEAF and UK) 242 (airdrop instructor) JATE, EU (as MACR) EU (commissioned) 242 (CALMI)and 30 as ALM Leader. Then as one of the two aircrew members of the HEART before I retired.
Yes that is the self same gorilla or should I say gorillas because there must have been more than one to have been in several places at once. Unless of course he was a 'quantum' gorilla !