Army lynx pizza delivery anyone?
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From CNN:-
They even mention the Squadron Badge which is posted on the other thread (New job thingy)
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British army pilot has been disciplined after using a $5.5 million helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.
The lieutenant stopped off in his Lynx chopper to deliver the takeaway during a training exercise.
His landing in a military training area in eastern England was cleared, but the delivery of the pizza to the officer cadet was not.
The Sun newspaper reported that the "chopper pizza run" clocked up a $18,500 bill for British taxpayers.
The report added that fellow Army Air Corps pilots at the 25-year-old lieutenant's base in Wattisham, Suffolk, had devised a new badge for the 659 Squadron.
It featured the takeaway chain Domino's Pizza logo and the words Quattro Stagione after the "four seasons" topping.
A MoD spokeswoman confirmed to CNN " individuals had been disciplined" over the incident during a training exercise on January 20.
"The training exercise consisted of low-level map reading. It involved confined take offs and landings to an austere field site and a scheduled landing in the Stanford training area.
"The opportunity was taken to conduct a light hearted element to the planned sortie but with no detriment to the sortie objective."
The spokeswoman added that the chain of command did not condone the crew's actions and that disciplinary action had been taken.
They even mention the Squadron Badge which is posted on the other thread (New job thingy)
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British army pilot has been disciplined after using a $5.5 million helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.
The lieutenant stopped off in his Lynx chopper to deliver the takeaway during a training exercise.
His landing in a military training area in eastern England was cleared, but the delivery of the pizza to the officer cadet was not.
The Sun newspaper reported that the "chopper pizza run" clocked up a $18,500 bill for British taxpayers.
The report added that fellow Army Air Corps pilots at the 25-year-old lieutenant's base in Wattisham, Suffolk, had devised a new badge for the 659 Squadron.
It featured the takeaway chain Domino's Pizza logo and the words Quattro Stagione after the "four seasons" topping.
A MoD spokeswoman confirmed to CNN " individuals had been disciplined" over the incident during a training exercise on January 20.
"The training exercise consisted of low-level map reading. It involved confined take offs and landings to an austere field site and a scheduled landing in the Stanford training area.
"The opportunity was taken to conduct a light hearted element to the planned sortie but with no detriment to the sortie objective."
The spokeswoman added that the chain of command did not condone the crew's actions and that disciplinary action had been taken.
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$18,500 tax bill?
That Lynx must have flown via St Tropez!
What a load of Bollox they print, no wonder the Army budget is tight with the Lynx costing £7000 for a ten minute diversion, and Whatasham in Suffolk all that way to, Thetford in erm, Norfolk, gee wizz.
Get a grip
I fcuking hate journos
I know plenty of company jags used by crabs to transport B&O kit,
BFG Lynx's for beer (MTOW!) if the cab's flying then make use of it,if its en-route then great.
"The landing was authed but delivery of a pizza was not"
Pah!
Give the lad a cigar
That Lynx must have flown via St Tropez!
What a load of Bollox they print, no wonder the Army budget is tight with the Lynx costing £7000 for a ten minute diversion, and Whatasham in Suffolk all that way to, Thetford in erm, Norfolk, gee wizz.
Get a grip
I fcuking hate journos
I know plenty of company jags used by crabs to transport B&O kit,
BFG Lynx's for beer (MTOW!) if the cab's flying then make use of it,if its en-route then great.
"The landing was authed but delivery of a pizza was not"
Pah!
Give the lad a cigar
"...I have delivered pizzas, tea urns, ammunition, rocks and mail and nurses..."
Splendid - "Quadrastagiione and a horny little blonde nurse to go please. To go, that is, like a belt fed mortar!"
When I was based at Wattisham in the days before the dung-eaters in their horrid clattering horse-scarers took it over, an occasional visitor was a certain 3-bag GAF F4. This would land, taxy in, shut down; the crew would hop out and their bottle of Asbach would be lawfully OK'd by the cutoms wallah. Then the Germans would hang around whilst their jet was towed into a hangar.... It invariably carried a bright yellow 4000 lb centreline tank which, unusually, had a large maintenance access panel.
"Ve are vaiting for unser lift from Cottesmore", they would explain, adding that their 'rules' only permitted them to leave their jet at an RAF F-4 base in case any technical assistance was needed. Bit of a thin story that, since their jet was totally different to the FGR2....
Then their buddy from Cottesmore would turn up in a largish wagon. After a furtive look around, off would come the tank access panel - and out would come all sorts of contraband for their TTTE friends. Not just Bratties and good beer, but once an entire Mercedes Benz exhaust system!
Splendid Teutonic efficiency!
Splendid - "Quadrastagiione and a horny little blonde nurse to go please. To go, that is, like a belt fed mortar!"
When I was based at Wattisham in the days before the dung-eaters in their horrid clattering horse-scarers took it over, an occasional visitor was a certain 3-bag GAF F4. This would land, taxy in, shut down; the crew would hop out and their bottle of Asbach would be lawfully OK'd by the cutoms wallah. Then the Germans would hang around whilst their jet was towed into a hangar.... It invariably carried a bright yellow 4000 lb centreline tank which, unusually, had a large maintenance access panel.
"Ve are vaiting for unser lift from Cottesmore", they would explain, adding that their 'rules' only permitted them to leave their jet at an RAF F-4 base in case any technical assistance was needed. Bit of a thin story that, since their jet was totally different to the FGR2....
Then their buddy from Cottesmore would turn up in a largish wagon. After a furtive look around, off would come the tank access panel - and out would come all sorts of contraband for their TTTE friends. Not just Bratties and good beer, but once an entire Mercedes Benz exhaust system!
Splendid Teutonic efficiency!
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Didn't see the Sky journo moan about his trip with the Kipper fleet to spot Ellen McA on Sunday, nor were the TV crews on HMS Severn complaining about the ride as they filmed her crossing the finish and making her way to Falmouth.
Did/does the MoD charge for such "assistance"?
Did/does the MoD charge for such "assistance"?
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'Kin should do.
Watching Dame MacArthur raise the flag once again. Well in.
However, I reckon the journos should stump up the cash to get in an watch.
Bet that sortie was specifically authed to watch her.
Which is fine, but our gutter-dwelling friends should look at the perks THEY get off us before spouting drivel they can obviously not get their tiny little minds about.
I suspect that the sortie was correctly authed to conduct LL training, CAL, etc in and around the area anyway, and (thinks) or intrepid green aviator why not pop a bit of extra cargo on.
THE SORTIE WAS NOT GENERATED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PIZZA DELIVERY AND HENCE THE MONEY WAS NOT WASTED!!!!
Would the F
KING journos please leave us alone to get on with our jobs and stop ruining HM Armed Forces in almost as serious a way as Buffoon is doing.
It is NOT their God given right.
Watching Dame MacArthur raise the flag once again. Well in.
However, I reckon the journos should stump up the cash to get in an watch.
Bet that sortie was specifically authed to watch her.
Which is fine, but our gutter-dwelling friends should look at the perks THEY get off us before spouting drivel they can obviously not get their tiny little minds about.
I suspect that the sortie was correctly authed to conduct LL training, CAL, etc in and around the area anyway, and (thinks) or intrepid green aviator why not pop a bit of extra cargo on.
THE SORTIE WAS NOT GENERATED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PIZZA DELIVERY AND HENCE THE MONEY WAS NOT WASTED!!!!
Would the F
KING journos please leave us alone to get on with our jobs and stop ruining HM Armed Forces in almost as serious a way as Buffoon is doing.It is NOT their God given right.
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Whats wrong with Jounalists? Do you want to stop all Journalists having any sort of contacvt with the Armed forces?
If you do then you would lose things like THIS
and THIS and surely heroism such as THIS should be reported.
So, we need to be very careful about slating journalists. We probably need them as much as they need us. Now of course we could argue that we don't want the bad journalism. We don't want the stories about Pizza delivery or the scandalous waste of money sending 16 Instructors to a party in Prague or the waste of money sending guys skiiing BUT we cannot pick and choose our stories. If we want our men and women to be recognised for their heroism like Flight Sargeant Timothy Thompson then we need to embrace journalism.
If you do then you would lose things like THIS
and THIS and surely heroism such as THIS should be reported.
So, we need to be very careful about slating journalists. We probably need them as much as they need us. Now of course we could argue that we don't want the bad journalism. We don't want the stories about Pizza delivery or the scandalous waste of money sending 16 Instructors to a party in Prague or the waste of money sending guys skiiing BUT we cannot pick and choose our stories. If we want our men and women to be recognised for their heroism like Flight Sargeant Timothy Thompson then we need to embrace journalism.
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Maybe the red mist got the better of me Hyd, but I still think that all we seem to do if give, and all the journos seem to doing is take (and take the p s).
Put in a calmer way, there needs to develop a "special relationship" twixt the Armed Forces and Journos.
I'm not saying that we should send a regiment down Fleet Street and fix bayonets on the hacks until they only right nice things about us.
I'm also not saying that bad things don't go on within our organisation, much like any other. These need to be investigated and the practitioneers brought to justice (Deepcut just doesn't feel right y'know).
There really needs to be an understanding, though, of what we do. This doesn't exist and the stories that are doing the damage are the ones written by journos who don't have a clue.
The media has SO MUCH INFLUENCE in this country that I feel we all need to develop a system where by the Armed Forces has greater representation among them.
Some body which can stand up and say, "look chaps, £10000 just to deliver a pizza... really think we'd auth that?"
Maybe the MOD legal team can man up and start firing out libel proceedings against papers etc who have not got their facts right.
We need the media onside, sure. But the sooner they understand that the country needs the Armed Forces the better.
TTH out.
s).Put in a calmer way, there needs to develop a "special relationship" twixt the Armed Forces and Journos.
I'm not saying that we should send a regiment down Fleet Street and fix bayonets on the hacks until they only right nice things about us.
I'm also not saying that bad things don't go on within our organisation, much like any other. These need to be investigated and the practitioneers brought to justice (Deepcut just doesn't feel right y'know).
There really needs to be an understanding, though, of what we do. This doesn't exist and the stories that are doing the damage are the ones written by journos who don't have a clue.
The media has SO MUCH INFLUENCE in this country that I feel we all need to develop a system where by the Armed Forces has greater representation among them.
Some body which can stand up and say, "look chaps, £10000 just to deliver a pizza... really think we'd auth that?"
Maybe the MOD legal team can man up and start firing out libel proceedings against papers etc who have not got their facts right.
We need the media onside, sure. But the sooner they understand that the country needs the Armed Forces the better.
TTH out.
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Let's get one thing straight Hyd3, like it or not, JN is no RAF hero! He screwed up in the air and got himself captured in Gulf1! Opinionated he is! hero, he is NOT!
Sorry, had to be said!
Sorry, had to be said!
Back to the Pizza, was it really Domino's or was it from the new NAAFI HUB Cafe?
If it was PAYD*, the trial gets a big thumbs up from me. That's what I call service!
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* PAYD (for those not in the know)...
http://www.mod.uk/issues/payd/Wattisham_Station.htm
If it was PAYD*, the trial gets a big thumbs up from me. That's what I call service!
LXGB
* PAYD (for those not in the know)...
http://www.mod.uk/issues/payd/Wattisham_Station.htm
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Concur thoughts ref JN.....those were journalistic words not mine and like you I have spent my entire career avoiding being shot down and how anyone who Fcuks up so badly can go on TV and radio and declare himself a military expert, when the only thing he has ever done is to be shot down, is beyond me.
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Are you really giving PAYD a thumbs up or was that sarcasm?
I have only had a (bad) experience of PAYD and that was at Culdrose where it was awful. OK if you were stationed there but if you were visiting then you were only allowed one sausage and half a tomato..
I have only had a (bad) experience of PAYD and that was at Culdrose where it was awful. OK if you were stationed there but if you were visiting then you were only allowed one sausage and half a tomato..
I've got no complaints. They do a mean "Belly Buster" breakfast bap for less than £2, giant pizzas for £3 and there's a Starbucks too! What more could you ask for?! 
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Bearing in mind the number of "hotlocs" (is that how you spell it?) I've had to deliver to drenched squaddies, sitting in some field in Bandit Country while they stag on at some incident; this was infact highly representative training!
Good Lad.
Good Lad.
