RAF Mildenhall is definitely closing
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Originally Posted by ZH875
Just use it as a new runway for London. No need to remove villages from the map to serve the southerners.
Driving time: 1 h 36 min (if traffic allows).
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GOOD RIDDANCE.
Now for Lakenheath (before the "F.35" Turkeys arrive) and lets have Menworth Hill and Feltwell trashed also.
In fact, lets gets back to when we ruled our OWN country before Mr (half Yankee) Churchill slithered UNELECTED by the British electorate into office and promptly betrayed all our military secrets to those he regarded higher than his own countrymen...YANKS.
Hopefully this post won't be "withheld" like my last post...democracy???
Now for Lakenheath (before the "F.35" Turkeys arrive) and lets have Menworth Hill and Feltwell trashed also.
In fact, lets gets back to when we ruled our OWN country before Mr (half Yankee) Churchill slithered UNELECTED by the British electorate into office and promptly betrayed all our military secrets to those he regarded higher than his own countrymen...YANKS.
Hopefully this post won't be "withheld" like my last post...democracy???
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^^
Democracy has been achieved through the sacrifice and blood of millions of people...many of them American, quite a few of whom departed bravely, and for the last time, from these very shores.
Banning trolls is not a restraint of free speech, merely a trivial operational necessity of running a thoughtful, useful, and well-ordered internet forum and it is rightly in the gift of the Moderator.
Let's hope one happens by shortly.
Democracy has been achieved through the sacrifice and blood of millions of people...many of them American, quite a few of whom departed bravely, and for the last time, from these very shores.
Banning trolls is not a restraint of free speech, merely a trivial operational necessity of running a thoughtful, useful, and well-ordered internet forum and it is rightly in the gift of the Moderator.
Let's hope one happens by shortly.
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Distance 1-way from RAF Mildenhall, Bury Saint Edmunds, EN IP28 8NG, United Kingdom to London, UK: 129.7 km (80.6 mi) via M11.
Driving time: 1 h 36 min (if traffic allows).
I live a few miles closer to London than Mildenhall on the opposite side of Cambridge. 1hr 36 is a pipe dream. You might just reach the bottom of the M11 from Mildenhall in about 1hr 10 mins. Allow another hour minimum to the centre of London. The big moan about Stansted is that its too far out of London. Mildenhall is about 40 miles further on.
Driving time: 1 h 36 min (if traffic allows).
I live a few miles closer to London than Mildenhall on the opposite side of Cambridge. 1hr 36 is a pipe dream. You might just reach the bottom of the M11 from Mildenhall in about 1hr 10 mins. Allow another hour minimum to the centre of London. The big moan about Stansted is that its too far out of London. Mildenhall is about 40 miles further on.
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GOOD RIDDANCE.
Now for Lakenheath (before the "F.35" Turkeys arrive) and lets have Menworth Hill and Feltwell trashed also.
In fact, lets gets back to when we ruled our OWN country before Mr (half Yankee) Churchill slithered UNELECTED by the British electorate into office and promptly betrayed all our military secrets to those he regarded higher than his own countrymen...YANKS.
Hopefully this post won't be "withheld" like my last post...democracy???
Now for Lakenheath (before the "F.35" Turkeys arrive) and lets have Menworth Hill and Feltwell trashed also.
In fact, lets gets back to when we ruled our OWN country before Mr (half Yankee) Churchill slithered UNELECTED by the British electorate into office and promptly betrayed all our military secrets to those he regarded higher than his own countrymen...YANKS.
Hopefully this post won't be "withheld" like my last post...democracy???
Stendec5,
You are either eleven years old or drunk, which is it?
You are either eleven years old or drunk, which is it?
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Stendec5 needs to understand that this is a military forum, and the military are here to protect democracy, not to practice it,
As recent events have illustrated, democracy involves freedom of speech and Stendec5 has the right to express his/her views even if most other posters disagree with those views.
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AMC Terminal
Take it quite a few peeps on here have probably used the MAC/AMC terminal with their folks at the 'Hall, does that mean with the impending doom, that
either
1) An existing building at LN will be utilized as a mini AMC terminal for any REACH flights or tans atlantic, trans Med flights for personnel and their dependents
2) A new mini AMC terminal will be constructed?
3) More use of commercial airliners from the major London hubs?
Cheers
either
1) An existing building at LN will be utilized as a mini AMC terminal for any REACH flights or tans atlantic, trans Med flights for personnel and their dependents
2) A new mini AMC terminal will be constructed?
3) More use of commercial airliners from the major London hubs?
Cheers
I also note that most of the Artillery Kaserne (Garrison) will close in Garmisch - and along with it the excellent R&R facilities (Edelweiss Lodge, Hauseberg Lodge, camping ground) and also the elementary school, used by the UK SP at nearby Oberammergau. With the loss of an English-language school, the NATO School Oberammergau will become (again) a retirement home for of wee-soaked old officers.
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As recent events have illustrated, democracy involves freedom of speech and Stendec5 has the right to express his/her views even if most other posters disagree with those views.
With freedom of speech comes responsibility.
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Correct, and the MODs have the right to ban him if he is guilty of trolling. And if you don't know what trolling is, look it up...google is your friend. With freedom of speech comes responsibility.
Thanks for your explanation of trolling but as a very early Internet adopter with 24 years on Usenet newsgroups and latterly web forums, I think I know what a troll is.
Twas mentioned on the local news a few days ago (I think) by a local MP that the UK SoS was having a re think on not taking Mildenhall on. Details awaited with interest.
Re the "trolling" bit earlier, we are a democracy and whether we like it or not people have free speech, it is a shame that some, in exercising that freedom, have problems stringing a coherent sentence together to make a reasoned argument.
There is plenty of information available as to why the US forces have UK bases, it is historical and available. May I politely suggest that the gentleman reads up on them before launching another diatribe?
Re the "trolling" bit earlier, we are a democracy and whether we like it or not people have free speech, it is a shame that some, in exercising that freedom, have problems stringing a coherent sentence together to make a reasoned argument.
There is plenty of information available as to why the US forces have UK bases, it is historical and available. May I politely suggest that the gentleman reads up on them before launching another diatribe?
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No he wasn't. He was trying to be as offensive as possible on a forum where he knew that his rant would hit a nerve.
I'm sure you know that is called "flaming" and internet protocol frowns on it.
He seemed to be expressing genuinely held views.
I'm sure you know that is called "flaming" and internet protocol frowns on it.
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The UK and USA do have a very special relationship in many ways, aircraft wise we already have the C-17, RC135 and F35 pending to name but 3.
Why not expand matters and the UK have some P3s and A-10s of which Uncle Sam has surplus, and we also should have saved our GBPs on the 2 carriers and just hired the USS Carl Vinson or a similar carrier with some Hornets.
Once a lot of money was spent on upgrading Mildenhall, and the Ospreys moving in we should have known that closure was just around the corner.
Why not expand matters and the UK have some P3s and A-10s of which Uncle Sam has surplus, and we also should have saved our GBPs on the 2 carriers and just hired the USS Carl Vinson or a similar carrier with some Hornets.
Once a lot of money was spent on upgrading Mildenhall, and the Ospreys moving in we should have known that closure was just around the corner.
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And you know this..... how exactly?
"seeming" to do something appears to be a good enough standard for you, and I'm just expressing MY opinion.
Got a problem with that?