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SATCOS WHIPPING BOY
A thoroughly enjoyable episode.
Only question it raises for me is why we subject the troops to coach travel to Brize.
Do we not have an effective transport fleet that could do the task in a fraction of the time?
We deployed to Bardufoss and a Herc came to Colt to pick us up, we didn't trog half way across the country to get to Lyneham.
This. Plus the use of a Typhoon in reactive CAS role to potentially mallet a mortar tube that turned out to be a farmer? Unless there's a threat rationale that precludes Protector, seems a somewhat unnecessary exposure of pilot and aircraft.
In any case a very good episode.