Body armour compensation claim
Virtus was a proper measuring session on order. BALCS, ACLP, Osprey (Mk 2 & 4) and ECBA were all sausage factory issues, form a queue going through stores to try on sizes so you were happy before you went out the gate. Anyone that wanted to change sizes down the line after a test and adjust period would find an oppo to swop with or put a demand in for a different size. That's why I find it hard to believe this man suffered for so long, a basic failure of leadership to not provide the correct PPE especially post 2003 and Sgt Roberts.
Unless he didn't tell anyone? InForm/DASOR/reported sick in Th?
Re Posts 14 & 15, I do not know if was Alan Brew.
A story relating to Alan was that he took a Wessex to Tern Hill (circ 1964) to show it off. A chap called Bartlett (who was a big cheese in the training at T/H) bummed a ride in the aircraft and during the sortie, is alleged to have said to Alan: "What happens if you knock off both donks in the hover" and with out further ado pulled back both speed select levers . I leave you to imagine the outcome.
OD
A story relating to Alan was that he took a Wessex to Tern Hill (circ 1964) to show it off. A chap called Bartlett (who was a big cheese in the training at T/H) bummed a ride in the aircraft and during the sortie, is alleged to have said to Alan: "What happens if you knock off both donks in the hover" and with out further ado pulled back both speed select levers . I leave you to imagine the outcome.
OD
This chap was lucky to get body armour! 20 years ago we only had a steel plate fitted in the Chinook cockpit either side of each seat. You had to lean over it to reach the fuse box.
