Genghis the Engineer wrote:This is an American thing I think, there was an F-18 pilot on my ETPS course who used to drive up to the PX at Mildenhall every fortnight, as the idea of shopping for groceries in Salisbury was apparently just too awful to contemplate.
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I'd have thought the PXs at Croughton or Fairford would have been closer, but perhaps he also liked the aircrew company ..
[here, I've been to several social occasions hosted by locally posted US military/DoD. There victuals hospitality has always been embarrassingly generous, but also always based on US supermarket products, for which they travelled to the Croughton PX as for all their groceries.
Because there used to be a small USN presence at RAF St Mawgan, the OR Mess and facilities ("Airmen's Club") had to be built and supplied to PX standards. This included a vast Bowling Alley. For sale at the bar there were all US-origin products, all very cheap; including US-bottled 'sodas', and even mineral water from Maryland
Similarly, there used to be PX-standard facilities (and low prices) at some joint UK/US units in RAF Germany. ]
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