MoD to purchase more Chinooks - Rumour or Fact ?

[The Helpful Stacker]

Originally Posted by WhiteOvies

Too obvious to bite!! Typical of the media - if it flies it's the RAF, if it floats it's the navy, if it's on the ground it's the army! Despite the helos having ROYAL NAVY in big letters on the side (which is more than can be said for the Harriers of 800 NAS!).

You are having a laugh aren't you?
How many times were/are Wessex, Puma and Chinook helicopters operating in Ulster described as 'Army Helicopters'?
Try this one, look at this link via 'Google Images', search wording Army Helicopters Northern Ireland. What is the first result?

[WhiteOvies]

THS
Fair enough, now you come to mention it when an RN Lynx recently made a trip into a NI school on a PR/recruiting visit there were letters in the local press regarding how shameful it was that the Army were doing such things. (also making my previous post wrong BTW)
Is it ignorance or just that most civis don't give a t s either way?

Talk about thread drift - back to the chinnies!

[Army Mover]

Originally Posted by WhiteOvies

THS
Fair enough, now you come to mention it when an RN Lynx recently made a trip into a NI school on a PR/recruiting visit there were letters in the local press regarding how shameful it was that the Army were doing such things. (also making my previous post wrong BTW)
Is it ignorance or just that most civis don't give a t s either way?

Talk about thread drift - back to the chinnies!

It's routine in Ireland for the British "Security Forces" of what ever background or colour to be referred to as the "Army", I think it's a link back to when the island was under British rule.