Cheers chaps for a most interesting read. It's certainly a weighty tome, but full of wonderful content.
My small part in this story is as a young and (fairly) fresh faced SAC back in the mid to late '90s I was posted to that most secret headquarters in Bucks and spent many a day in the Commcen typing out the transops and trails for 38Gp. It was an arduous task not only going out as regular signals, but having to then re-type into RAFAN as well as OFTS for the civvy handling agents. But sat there in the office with no windows it always got me thinking of the lucky barstewards actually doing the routes not just the crew but as a sample;
1 X GE
1 X SVC
2 X UKMAMS
2 X ATSY