Well we were visiting - Masirah island that is - (845 NAS '68/69 on Bulwark) we had to provide guards for the aircraft (Wessex HU5's) on the line - I remember being issued with a 303 and 3 rounds of live ammunition, - now remember no military training exept a weekend on Dartmoor or Salisbury Plane. "Jack" (me, can you believe it) with a rifle, on watch, middle of the night (3 ish) with live ammo - by then was inside one of the aircraft - it was so fu**ing cold - and heard a scraping like noise - turned out it was some bleeding ragheads donkey having a scratch on the tail of the aircarft, I was inside, nearly shot the bloody thing out of the bubble window - not to mention changing my nicks when I got back to the camp site.