Originally Posted by
pr00ne
TorqueOfTheDEvil,
But in the military you do NOT get to "hop into a turbine helicopter more or less at a time of their choosing" you do it, infrequently, when told to do it.
Again, nobody flings anything about in the military "as often as they want" it just does NOT work like that.
Err, you were never on SAR Helicopters then Pr00ne? Before the RAF shrinkage, when we got 'discovered' by VSO's and Career Officers with fewer pointy things left to fly/manage, SAR was about as un-military and un-constrained as you could get.
"hop into a turbine helicopter more or less at a time of their choosing"?
That's exactly what I did for 22 years. Only time we were 'told to do it' was when it was a life saving 'job', and we all looked forward to that. We who were lucky enough to be part of that backwater rather liked it that way.
Tell THAT to the yoof of today!
