The 1BR Corps deployments were a sight to behold. Met shared two box-bodies with Corps Int, and leapfrogged as HQ leapfrogged.
S Met O 1BR Corps was the prime Metman to deploy, but was always mysteriously on leave or sick when the no-notice deployments were triggered.
Thus LB [from Gutersloh] into the fray.
At dusk a VSO took to the air to check the camo and IR signature of the site, after which a NBC environement reigned for about 15 hours.
LB achieved brief fame by sleeping through a substantial war in full NBC gear and respirator, and awoke fresh as a daisy to warm bread rolls and mess silver. "The cooks have to exercise too, y'know"
In later years the Harriers were occasionally supported in the field by our Mobile Met Unit team, in their temporary guise as RAFVR. By which time my function, such as it was, was to turn up to gaze in wonder, make admiring or condemnatory noises, take coffee and depart from whence I came.
The choppers had to make do with the daily "Standard Area Forecast" once deployed, cut off from their more competent airfield Met forecasters.
As always, comms. were the bugger, both for disseminating info. in time to be useful, and for receiving feedback in real time.