Ex Military/Still Serving Thread

[selym]

Asterix said:

Yeah - remember back then, the Cold War was technically still going on - BOAR was basically tens of thousands of people sat around waiting for something to happen. GW1 was a blip as was Bosnia & Kosovo with the latter being peace keeping roles. There was plenty of room for guys to go missing from their units for a while. It really started tightening up from GW2 onwards as every unit would at some point be operational and the redundancies of the mid-90's really started to bite.

Sad times, but the guys joining up today won't have ever experienced those days so I don't think it is as bad a prospect as I keep hearing.
It's a completely different job to even when I joined up in '98. Get in, get qualified, get some life experience, get out. It's what all parties want.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

98elise said:

Just to be clear, the blokes keeping the Argie Air Force busy were Royal Navy pilots. The RAF did the long range bombing, but all the Harriers were RN

So, just to be sure,

Flt Lts Dave Morgan DSC, John Leeming and Robert (Bertie) Penfold didn't fly 800 NAS SHARs.

Flt Lts Ian Mortimer and Paul Barton didn't fly 801 NAS SHARs.

Just to be even more clear, the following didn't get any 'kills':

Flt Lt Morgan 3 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Leeming 1 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Penfold 1 confirmed air
Flt Lt Barton 1 confirmed air

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Thursday 25th September 11:47

[anonymous-user]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

98elise said:

Just to be clear, the blokes keeping the Argie Air Force busy were Royal Navy pilots. The RAF did the long range bombing, but all the Harriers were RN

So, just to be sure,

Flt Lts Dave Morgan DSC, John Leeming and Robert (Bertie) Penfold didn't fly 800 NAS SHARs.

Flt Lts Ian Mortimer and Paul Barton didn't fly 801 NAS SHARs.

Just to be even more clear, the following didn't get any 'kills':

Flt Lt Morgan 3 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Leeming 1 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Penfold 1 confirmed air
Flt Lt Barton 1 confirmed air

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Thursday 25th September 11:47

See my post at the bottom of P13.
Photoshopped, obviously

[Shar2]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

So, just to be sure,

Flt Lts Dave Morgan DSC, John Leeming and Robert (Bertie) Penfold didn't fly 800 NAS SHARs.

Flt Lts Ian Mortimer and Paul Barton didn't fly 801 NAS SHARs.

Just to be even more clear, the following didn't get any 'kills':

Flt Lt Morgan 3 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Leeming 1 confirmed air + 1 ground
Flt Lt Penfold 1 confirmed air
Flt Lt Barton 1 confirmed air

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Thursday 25th September 11:47

Ah! but Dave Morgan saw the light and transferred to the FAA soon after. He was our QWI when I was on 800sqn '88 to '90

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Oh indeed!

And Sqn Ldr Jerry Pook, while not flying a 1(F)Sqn Harrier GR3 which was not launched from HMS Hermes did not score a ground kill on an Argentine Puma.

Similarly Flt Lt Mark Hare, while not flying a 1(F)Sqn Harrier GR3 which was not launched from HMS Hermes did not score a ground kill on an Argentine Chinook.

[anonymous-user]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Oh indeed!
Similarly Flt Lt Mark Hare, while not flying a 1(F)Sqn Harrier GR3 which was not launched from HMS Hermes did not score a ground kill on an Argentine Chinook.

So the cockpit doors did not end up on Bravo November then?

[selym]

Crossflow Kid said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Oh indeed!
Similarly Flt Lt Mark Hare, while not flying a 1(F)Sqn Harrier GR3 which was not launched from HMS Hermes did not score a ground kill on an Argentine Chinook.

So the cockpit doors did not end up on Bravo November then?

That's a decent little steal! I know very little about BN itself (or herself?), but what a turn of events to thrust it into the limelight.

[anonymous-user]

selym said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Oh indeed!
Similarly Flt Lt Mark Hare, while not flying a 1(F)Sqn Harrier GR3 which was not launched from HMS Hermes did not score a ground kill on an Argentine Chinook.

So the cockpit doors did not end up on Bravo November then?

That's a decent little steal! I know very little about BN itself (or herself?), but what a turn of events to thrust it into the limelight.

Google it.

[selym]

Crossflow Kid said:

Google it.

It's interesting stuff.

[anonymous-user]

selym said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Google it.

It's interesting stuff.

I know. I was there for some of it.

[selym]

Crossflow Kid said:

selym said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Google it.

It's interesting stuff.

I know. I was there for some of it.

My abiding memory is that my year at school were due to holiday on the cruise ship (Uganda?) which was commandeered to take part. Not me; we didn't have a pot to piss in! Oh and that my neighbour was on the Brilliant and had to shave his beard before embarking. Seemed very unfair at 10 yo!

[mikal83]

98elise said:

Just to be clear, the blokes keeping the Argie Air Force busy were Royal Navy pilots. The RAF did the long range bombing, but all the Harriers were RN

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, another armchair warrior getting it soooooooooooo wrong.

(Ex Invince wafoo)

[thismonkeyhere]

mikal83 said:

(Ex Invince wafoo)

..who can't spell 'WAFU'.

[PaulG40]

selym said:

PaulG40 said:

To bring abit of equality to the table here, and to level the argument abit.... I only had time for 3 cups of tea during my night shift. I know, shocking yeah?! Those Chinooks don't fix themselves you know!

That needs to be addressed. If the Xbox wasn't on in the tea bar for at least half the shift, you aren't doing it right!

Xbox? Such luxuries are few and far between for us. We've only just got/been allowed a working TV with actual TV reception in our TBar. Even the water heater is a new addition, rather than grubby kettles.

[anonymous-user]

PaulG40 said:

selym said:

PaulG40 said:

To bring abit of equality to the table here, and to level the argument abit.... I only had time for 3 cups of tea during my night shift. I know, shocking yeah?! Those Chinooks don't fix themselves you know!

That needs to be addressed. If the Xbox wasn't on in the tea bar for at least half the shift, you aren't doing it right!

Xbox? Such luxuries are few and far between for us. We've only just got/been allowed a working TV with actual TV reception in our TBar. Even the water heater is a new addition, rather than grubby kettles.

A grubby kettle? Is your butler on leave then?

[98elise]

mikal83 said:

98elise said:

Just to be clear, the blokes keeping the Argie Air Force busy were Royal Navy pilots. The RAF did the long range bombing, but all the Harriers were RN

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, another armchair warrior getting it soooooooooooo wrong.

(Ex Invince wafoo)

Ex Ark POWEA and I can spell WAFU

[anonymous-user]

98elise said:

mikal83 said:

98elise said:

Just to be clear, the blokes keeping the Argie Air Force busy were Royal Navy pilots. The RAF did the long range bombing, but all the Harriers were RN

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, another armchair warrior getting it soooooooooooo wrong.

(Ex Invince wafoo)

Ex Ark POWEA and I can spell WAFU

That's terrific. More than makes up for the total balony regarding the Harrier element of Corporate.

[PaulG40]

Crossflow Kid said:

A grubby kettle? Is your butler on leave then?

Whoa, way down here in the ground floor we don't get all your silver spoon service.

[selym]

PaulG40 said:

Whoa, way down here in the ground floor we don't get all your silver spoon service.

Plastic spoons, and biscuits fruit to dunk.

[mikal83]

Crossflow Kid said:

That's terrific. More than makes up for the total balony regarding the Harrier element of Corporate.

spolling was niver my bist punt.