Is there a big army exercise going on?
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So a chinook decided to bomb some sheep with some ration packs #notforsheep http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/chino...
Guessing the hookers will be in trouble for an incorrect load.
Guessing the hookers will be in trouble for an incorrect load.
I was on camp at St. Athan all weekend. I'd seen the NOTAM and fighter control threads on accumulated traffic so knew to expect rotary traffic but it was so much more active than I'd expected. Chinooks, Pumas, apaches, merlins, Lynx all in multiples and often with USLs. Herc taxied past as I left the junior ranks mess which is pretty much on the runway. The amazing thing is that an entire room of 12 airmen missed the apparent arrival of a c17 at 11:45. We were only a couple hundred metres from the runway all weekend.
Edited by Surfr on Tuesday 21st April 16:37
Surfr said:
I was on. Amp at St. Athan all weekend. I'd seen the NOTAM and fighter control threads on accumulated traffic so knew to expect rotary traffic but it was so much more active than I'd expected. Chinooks, Pumas, apaches, merlins, Lynx all in multiples and often with USLs. Herc taxid past as I left the junior ranks mess which is pretty much on the runway. The amazing thing is that an entire room of 12 airmen missed the apparent arrival of a c17 at 11:45. We were only a couple hundred metres from the runway all weekend.
possibly silly question, but would the MOD have more money to "play with" and more assets to use now that we are not in Afghanistan anymore?onyx39 said:
possibly silly question, but would the MOD have more money to "play with" and more assets to use now that we are not in Afghanistan anymore?
Yes, very much so.The Defence Exercise budget has gone up massively, and units from all three services have taken advantage of this.
I'm off to do a bit of work on JW tomorrow.
onyx39 said:
possibly silly question, but would the MOD have more money to "play with" and more assets to use now that we are not in Afghanistan anymore?
After near on 15 years of continuous ops in Iraq and Afghanistan plus other shorter deployments such as Libya, everything is a bit knackered so there is probably a bit less to "play with" at the moment. War costs dont wholly come out of the MoD budget either, most of the cost of deployments such as Afghanistan comes from separate contingency budgets. The MoD will pick up some costs from its own budget but only a minority.
ecsrobin said:
I would suggest that having a lot of kit and people with nothing for them to fight means they need to practice to keep the morale low,
I believe there is an intention to also get back to more field based training rather than in an office at an airfield type training.
Keep morale low?I believe there is an intention to also get back to more field based training rather than in an office at an airfield type training.
looking on my brother's pub's facebook page it seems joint warrior pretty much moved into it
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cock-Inn/161394...
some great photos
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cock-Inn/161394...
some great photos
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