Good point Pontius, I like to think we welcomed visiting crews into the Muharraq mess bar as it relieved the boredom! The Luqa Officers Transit Mess in 1958 was my first close contact with the V Force. Apart from me, a lowly second pilot, our Hastings crew was a load of old hairies, who were getting agitated about the blue eyed V boys drinking in their clanking flying suits. Eventual our captain stomped out to the entrance lobby and wrote this entry in the visitors' book: "Suggest the bar be pressurised to make the V Force feel at home." It never was though!