With the choice removed from the individual, anyone, fool or otherwise, can be made uncomfortable.
Shy Torque
I fully agree with you and having also worked supporting Rotary Wing, inc SHDetNI , always respected the way you guys "knuckled down " in supporting the Army in the field.
In contrast of course Harrier Force had a huge mobile support tail .
Indeed, watching one set of convoy packets moving out of Güt, I was amused by my Flight Sergeant's remark:
" So, where's the Piano?"
FYI I never lived in a tent on deployment (What? No chance!): having about a dozen box- bodied Bedfords (actually flat beds with ATRELs) , suitably modified by local Harrier RIC initiative. Hot showers, 24hr lighting if required , Aircon, Air beds on the floors, hot coffee at daybreak, our own self help in-house catering ( partly because we also looked after the HF cooks, helping them set up ) etc.etc.
We had in one song, based on "Yellow Submarine" the phrase:
"Ten, four-ton happy holiday homes on wheels"
("Backed up arse-to- arse, going nowhere fast")
Happy Days - 7 minutes of their flying time from the IGB.
I guess we wouldn't have lasted effectively more than a couple of days had
IT happened.
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(But we also had a contingency plan for that.....)