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4. Every pilot and aircrewman in AAAvn is getting all the night flying they need. Those who fall uncurrent for whatever reason are given all the training they require before we ask them to step out on a dark night.
5. We do all sorts of training in theatre. We always have. The assertion that we are somehow putting our people at risk because we don't have enough Chinooks is absurd, vexatious and based on ignorance.
Mate, you are seriously deluded if you believe that all crews are adequately trained. It isn't absurd, vexatious or ignorant - it is fact absolute fact. Tell me how you many hours are available to train crews before they deploy and whether all formation, NVD and tactical training is completed before deployment.....my evidence would suggest a different position to that which you are suggesting. And to say that you do all sorts out training in theatre because you always have is a feeble excuse and surely must signify that you are one of the 16th Aviation Brigade spin doctors....you should be ashamed of yourself....!
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