I assiduously avoided any jobs in involving inventories or MT, based on similar tales to the ones you chaps are entertaining us with now. Indeed, until my last year in the RAF I had no car licence. Nor did the requirement for officers to drive still exist, as it meant the RAF thus had no obligation to spend money to train one to do so. You should have heard the spluttering of MT Sections, various, when they realised each request for a car AND driver for my SDO duties was valid. However, it turned out that one's final year Education Allowance could be used for almost any purpose, so I agreed with 5 Sqn, my war role, that I would get qual'ed to drive so they could use me as a minibus driver on their APC in Cyprus. A few civvy lessons and the test were thus paid by the RAF. The test in Boston was amusing for 2 reasons. The first was that it's the only place in the UK where there is no hill start requirement, as there are no hills. The second was that the instructor assured me I would pass no problem if I could somehow let the examiner, an old lag, know I was RAF. The test commenced with that old chestnut question "What is the first thing you check for when approaching your vehicle?" "I immediately responded "Bombs!", and duly passed. My only RAF driving experience was therefore driving minibuses between Animal House and Golf Dispersal, with one hand always holding an ice cream or chilled beverage, and the other on the horn
And I got another month's 'holiday' in Cyprus.
My UAS once annoyed MT at Waddo by putting one of their minis into the Mess foyer. They damaged the door getting it out again (only about a half inch clearance each side), and tried to pass the bill on to us. We pointed out that we had got it in without damage, and that they could have asked us to get it out and we would have. Harry Staish at Waddo agreed and MT copped the bill. We suspected that H. Staish had pulled the same trick himself in the past. It was still a Vulcan base at the time.
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