Luxury. Sheer luxury. We chopper pukes had to endure far less salubrious surroundings. Although we did have a phantom crapper on the Happy H: worth a separate post in its own right. He did wonders for junior officers morale as he only targeted the wash basins of senior officers, Cdr and above. And then had the balls to make a pipe about it. As senior officers morale plummeted sentries were posted on every main broadcast point (numerous even on Hermes ) and he still kept doing it ! Leading us to assume he was perhaps a greenie and could splice in to the main broadcast system from relative safety.
Thankfully he was never caught.

Um…. I was a chopper puke, and a Subbie at that 🤔 🚁

Later on 824 off Ark we spent a miserable time aboard H, early after refit, with a Commander who disliked aircrew. Wardroom meals were the worst I’ve ever encountered, meagre rations and apparently shortage of funds meant no way to get anything better 😢


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My apologies for the insult. I assumed (prior to doing any research ) that you were a Stovie. So suitable grovelling apologies. My time on H was a bit happier….appalling conditions but a happy ship’s company.