I used to love those exercises, partly because I'm a pervert and partly because they tried to remind some of our people that they were actually in a fighting Service
I had the pleasure/privilege of being IC Station DISTAFF at Waddington in V-Force days, and subsequently being a visiting PITA for 11 Gp Exercises at assorted locations. I can't have been that awful, though ... LU used to request my presence as DISTAFF when they held a SCOTADEX, so I must have done something right!
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