I'm fairly certain that the first 'Airmen's Club' was brought into being in Khormaksar in the mid 50s. It was mooted, fund-raised, and organised by an Admin F/Sgt, Jack Winterflood and the result of his efforts was (initially) an absolute marvel - particularly in the, then, awful Aden conditions. I say initially because, as usual, NAAFI fought it every inch of the way and, as usual, the top brass gave in to them. When I left, in '58, Naafi had managed to reduce it to their standard level of 5* awfulness!!
