Do we still do NEOs?
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Answering the thread title, it would appear we do.
BBC News - RAF Hercules planes rescue 150 from Libya desert
Answering my 'capability' musing, it would also appear that we have no gap.
BBC News - RAF Hercules planes rescue 150 from Libya desert
Answering my 'capability' musing, it would also appear that we have no gap.
[QUOTE]Answering my 'capability' musing, it would also appear that we have no gap. [/QUOTE}
Whilst this is yet another example of the military doing the whole 'cavalry to the rescue' bit, I strongly suspect that the UK's 'slow' response has had as much to do with the military spending the best part of the last week working out what else would have to be cancelled or suspended to support this effort as it did political and diplomatic complacency.
I would put my Boss' pay packet on the fact that to mount the military response we have done so far, training or other operational taskings will have been cancelled because we can't manage to do both.
Despite pulling it out of the bag again, our capability gap is frankly getting so big that we will shortly get to the stage whereby if we want to do anything other than turn up for work in the morning something else will have to give.
Whilst this is yet another example of the military doing the whole 'cavalry to the rescue' bit, I strongly suspect that the UK's 'slow' response has had as much to do with the military spending the best part of the last week working out what else would have to be cancelled or suspended to support this effort as it did political and diplomatic complacency.
I would put my Boss' pay packet on the fact that to mount the military response we have done so far, training or other operational taskings will have been cancelled because we can't manage to do both.
Despite pulling it out of the bag again, our capability gap is frankly getting so big that we will shortly get to the stage whereby if we want to do anything other than turn up for work in the morning something else will have to give.
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Melchett,
Surely that's not a capability gap though, as events tonight have shown, the capability (or the core of it) is there. What you describe is surely overstretch!
Surely that's not a capability gap though, as events tonight have shown, the capability (or the core of it) is there. What you describe is surely overstretch!
What you describe is surely overstretch!
Champagne anyone...?
I would put my Boss' pay packet on the fact that to mount the military response we have done so far, training or other operational taskings will have been cancelled because we can't manage to do both.
