Originally Posted by
Asturias56
To be fair they do sterling work around the smaller island nations of the Pacific
Seven years ago, my company was acquiring a seismic survey in its Vietnamese concession in the East Sea (otherwise known as the South China Sea). The seismic vessel was being routinely harassed by Chinese Coastguard vessels, which was nothing new. However one day we had a report that the vessel was overflown a few times at low-altitude by a four-engined turbo-prop of unknown origin. A low-resolution photo was sent to us, which confirmed it was a P-3 with an albatross logo on the fin.
After fruitlessly searching for a USN Squadron with an albatross badge, I eventually discovered this was an RNZAF 5 Squadron aircraft, a long way from home and presumably operating from Singapore, Malaysia or the Philippines.
