Troops returning from Helmand pay for own flights

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Movers and AT

Of course the whole AT schedule runs around movers! some of the troops being moved are deliberately delayed so that there is no flow clash at home.. Any AT captain will have heard this phrase before and wilted at the prospect of explaining this poor excuse. The whole military AT system revolves around a handful of guys at an Oxfordshire base being available!! Perhaps some of the guys sitting around at an certain middle east base could come home and help out.
I have heard of aircraft being told they couldn’t leave early from Iraq because of flow clash, fortunately the message was drowned out by the incoming/air-raid siren!!

This short-sighted way of operating winds people up no end and denies the aircraft gingers the opportunity to fix and faults being carried. They are denied the time to fix them before they are turned round. Yes 10hrs might seem a long ground time but thats only 4hrs fix time!!