Re the above, one of our more exciting activities when I was with the regiment squadron at Khormaksar was to go off in a Whirlwind and "drop in " on the side of the road, usually somewhere near the causeway, and set up an impromptu road block for 20 minutes or so until the aircraft came back to pick us up. On one occasion I remember having to placate an angry car occupant as one of my chaps had asked his wife to get out of the car instead of asking the man himself to do it. Woman of course couldn't be searched, and who knew if their burkas were concealing small arms, grenades etc, which meant that the whole procedure was flawed.
Good fun though!