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Old 1st May 2021, 08:17
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Declan275
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
What overseas deployments do the IAC have?
At the moment, none with the exception of personnel serving in DF overseas operations generally. There’s a commission on defence due to report at the end of the year and all eyes are on that. Up until relatively recently, the stated govt policy was to not send aircraft o/seas but that has now been changed, or rather, the prohibition is removed.

To answer the obvious question about staffing any potential detachment, I think the game changer that has yet to make its results apparent is the use of foreign military ab initio training. Turn the taps on with that and you can provide the service with junior members at a much increased rate.
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