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Off on another detachment. Not only do the MOD want me to spend another period sausage side, they are now making it more difficult for me to actually go in the first place! The sheer number of pre det Aircrew ticks to chase is now soul destroying.
Take your pre det briefs and shove them up your well meaning but misguided and blunt a*se!
Take your pre det briefs and shove them up your well meaning but misguided and blunt a*se!
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And this actually surprises you?????
Before my last little escapade in the Lion's Den I popped down to stores (not supply - they don't issue enough to called that) to enquire about my body armour. Having been told they didn't have any in stock they would have to order it and that it probably wouldn't arrive before I left.
Would they get off their fat contractorised ar*es to sort this out? I think not, after all 'it's not my problem mate' and it wasn't important enough to make it a priority and send a courier despite me leaving 3 days later. When it finally arrived the day before I left it was too small, depsite having repeatedly told them my size, but on pointing out this ever so small but important point was told that I didn't need to fasten it up and that I was just being fussy.
10 minutes later after I'd picked my jaw off the floor, unclenched my fists and got my blood pressure back down to treble figures and made a few threats in language not becoming an officer to inform theatre that the reason I wasn't going was down to some ars*hole contractor not providing very essential kit they backed down and bu**er me if a set or armour, right size, with plates didn't miraculously appear from out the back.
This hole detachment thing is a farce and it's all down to civilianizing the military and letting the accountants run things. We don't have enough money to do what we need to do, and when we finally get some cash together to mount an op, the wheels fall off before we start thanks to some one who's idea of operational is Casualty on tv. We really need to have people running dets and ops that have actually been on these things and understand the basic requirements - let us get on with doing our job and don't make life harder than it needs to be by insisting we go through hoops and pointless red tape.
I recall the moment in the film Reach for the Sky when Douglas Bader gets to his sqn which is totally demoralised and snowed under by paper work and admin trivia - he takes one look at it all and chucks it in the bin before declaring the sqn non-op until they get the kit they need. More people like that please!!!!
HS - Good luck and keep your head down mate!
Before my last little escapade in the Lion's Den I popped down to stores (not supply - they don't issue enough to called that) to enquire about my body armour. Having been told they didn't have any in stock they would have to order it and that it probably wouldn't arrive before I left.
Would they get off their fat contractorised ar*es to sort this out? I think not, after all 'it's not my problem mate' and it wasn't important enough to make it a priority and send a courier despite me leaving 3 days later. When it finally arrived the day before I left it was too small, depsite having repeatedly told them my size, but on pointing out this ever so small but important point was told that I didn't need to fasten it up and that I was just being fussy.
10 minutes later after I'd picked my jaw off the floor, unclenched my fists and got my blood pressure back down to treble figures and made a few threats in language not becoming an officer to inform theatre that the reason I wasn't going was down to some ars*hole contractor not providing very essential kit they backed down and bu**er me if a set or armour, right size, with plates didn't miraculously appear from out the back.
This hole detachment thing is a farce and it's all down to civilianizing the military and letting the accountants run things. We don't have enough money to do what we need to do, and when we finally get some cash together to mount an op, the wheels fall off before we start thanks to some one who's idea of operational is Casualty on tv. We really need to have people running dets and ops that have actually been on these things and understand the basic requirements - let us get on with doing our job and don't make life harder than it needs to be by insisting we go through hoops and pointless red tape.
I recall the moment in the film Reach for the Sky when Douglas Bader gets to his sqn which is totally demoralised and snowed under by paper work and admin trivia - he takes one look at it all and chucks it in the bin before declaring the sqn non-op until they get the kit they need. More people like that please!!!!
HS - Good luck and keep your head down mate!
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I'm afraid it's not just down to contractorization - it's been that way since pontious was a pilot. Probably due to lazy personnel who think they have a job for life - and they are now civvies with a job for life!
Like it or not though, we are our own worst enemies - we have a reputation as arrogant aircrew tw4ts. Sometimes that is true ;-) sometimes it's just jealousy, still - it's the fact!
After 20 years of this game - and that's what it is - I'm in a position to say that jumping up and down, shouting etc doesn't work - no matter how angry you get at the lazy, good for nothing blunt, stacking b4stard! Simply say ok, ask to use the phone and call OC supply in front of the lazy, scruffy erk. Of course, if you've left it until the last minute to order/get your kit then you might be the one getting a talking to!!
Like it or not though, we are our own worst enemies - we have a reputation as arrogant aircrew tw4ts. Sometimes that is true ;-) sometimes it's just jealousy, still - it's the fact!
After 20 years of this game - and that's what it is - I'm in a position to say that jumping up and down, shouting etc doesn't work - no matter how angry you get at the lazy, good for nothing blunt, stacking b4stard! Simply say ok, ask to use the phone and call OC supply in front of the lazy, scruffy erk. Of course, if you've left it until the last minute to order/get your kit then you might be the one getting a talking to!!
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Talking of not enough money, a secret airbase somewhere in Wiltshire that is closing in 8 years time now has a brand spanking new tarmac path, edged with concrete, running straight as a die across a large patch of ground in the families area. The ground is a park and football pitch. The path does not go to either the football pitch or the play park. It runs straight as a die to an 8 foot tall fence with a large (very large, bigger than a Challenger tank trap large) ditch the otherside.
Who knows why except that it is now April and the start of a new financial year. Maybe they bought the path now and will move it when the need arises?
Who knows why except that it is now April and the start of a new financial year. Maybe they bought the path now and will move it when the need arises?
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Or perhaps the MQs/Messes/Blocks will be refurbished and upgraded to humane standards and the fence is the first part of the Unit's conversion to a Immigrant Holding Camp!!!
Oh how the house prices plummeted!
Oh how the house prices plummeted!
Obviously missed a trick there then. The path should have gone through the middle of the football pitch before ending at a large puddle some distance short of the play park.
To change the subject though
,to go on det now means a visit to the med centre, dental section, regiment for GDT, IDT, IRT, weapons handling check (OK I'll give you that one), P2 and stores. Every time. No matter how many times you go away. No requirement for a work up period in the sim or aircraft though.
For heavens sake! Perhaps glossy brochures ARE a better option for empire builders.
To change the subject though
,to go on det now means a visit to the med centre, dental section, regiment for GDT, IDT, IRT, weapons handling check (OK I'll give you that one), P2 and stores. Every time. No matter how many times you go away. No requirement for a work up period in the sim or aircraft though.For heavens sake! Perhaps glossy brochures ARE a better option for empire builders.
