Langley Baston:
As 814man has written about RAFG [thank you!] I was personally involved when the C130s returned weapons to the UK, answering SASO's "what-ifs" regarding the behaviour of any contamination post-crash.
I also checked the route forecast issued by Brueggen before signing it off.
The flight days were a bit tense for many of us.
My most utterly, absolutely god awful posting. I was working in the SSA the day the final piece of kit left. We knew they were all being shuttled out and had started the transition to WS3 anyway.
Some of the flights were dummy flights, the one in question we had no idea was the last until the boss ambled into the site and told us to stand down. We got on the blower to DB in the tower and told him to come down.. bless him, he requested a duress authentication. He only came down when he saw us playing footy shirts off, below him.
I found an item recently, the old face to face book (if you need to ask etc) which is quite a chilling piece of Cold War ephemera. One of the mugshots was the OC 9 of the time.. chap by the name of Peach. Not sure what happened to him.