PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - James Blunt: Britain's failure to get troops into battle (theatre) is pitiful
Thread: James Blunt: Britain's failure to get troops into battle (theatre) is pitiful
View Single Post
Old 7th Mar 2012, 13:47
  #21 (permalink)  
Seldomfitforpurpose
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Oxon
Age: 66
Posts: 1,942
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Courtney Mil
Glojo, BEags,

Thanks both.

We'll be chartering civilian ships to retake the Falklands next!
Mid 90's and Ex Purple Star saw 18 Sqn crews and ground crew flying to Cherry Point on a charter aircraft that was short finals to got to a desert graveyard and our Chinooks and Puma's getting to the US in a chartered boat totally unfit for purpose.

Any of the SH folk involved will no doubt remember the daily briefing telling us that the aircraft would, yet again not be arriving today, a clusterf@ck of truly outstanding proportions
Seldomfitforpurpose is offline  
Reply