No, since we had to teach them everything else - FLIR, NVG, double strop lifts etc etc
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- NVG first used in the Falklands by the RN in 1982.
- Double strop lifts around since I was training, 1969, and certainly raised at INTSAR in 1972 when I was on the staff for the event. Not by the RAF, I hasten to add, but by the Noggie's who lost a survivor on the winch and another because he was too large to fit any of the standard strops in use back then.
- Can't speak for FLIR, we were battling to get it in VicPol Air Wing in 1982 when the NSCA (Vic) got the first operational civil unit in Australia. What's the RAF/RN history there?
We were supposed to be on the same side when I was playing on Aunty Betty's Grey Funnel liners.