Snoopy
Ah DERA. Although operated by our side, DERA was a law unto itself.
When asked to deliver the High Altitude Air Delivery System (HAADS) 1 ton containers to the beleaguered troops in the Gorazde Pocket of Bosnia we raised the point that unlike the MAC boys doing their resupply on forecast winds from MacDill we would need accurate actual readings.
Bimbling over Serbian held territory and slowly spiralling up would only entertain them for a while before they smelled a rat and fired something pointy at us. "No problem" quoth the Vice Field Minstrel, "we will despatch the Met Herc to drop a descending sonde in the target area and decode all the info you need".
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Said DERA. "We don't do warfighting" - or words to that effect Elf and safety, duty of care..etc.
So all that practice at black Ball Firs went into the bin.
Tin hat, coat.