Sudan brit evacuation
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Sudan brit evacuation
Various news items suggest that we now have an airfield from which to repatriate hapless Brits.
Job for the Regiment? Surely yes, but probably not being used. Again.
Anyway, good luck to all, get Home safely.
Job for the Regiment? Surely yes, but probably not being used. Again.
Anyway, good luck to all, get Home safely.
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30th Apr 2023, 11:33
All I would say to all you armchair critics is, have you ever taken part in any evacuation flights or tried to organise any of them? It is not easy and usually chaotic. There are far too many unkowns that have to be dealt with.
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They're on their way?
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https://news.sky.com/video/sudan-vol...ation-12866133
Ben Wallace press conference (interestingly with some looking suspiciously like the Commandant General of the Regiment (AVM Smeath) sitting next to him)
Germans in charge at Airfield - UK will take over if they leave before evac complete.
Looks like it's the Marines (footage of them boarding C-130 at Aktrotiri) also scoping out sea evacuation from Port Sudan. (Youtube version of same clip is longer)
Ben Wallace press conference (interestingly with some looking suspiciously like the Commandant General of the Regiment (AVM Smeath) sitting next to him)
Germans in charge at Airfield - UK will take over if they leave before evac complete.
Looks like it's the Marines (footage of them boarding C-130 at Aktrotiri) also scoping out sea evacuation from Port Sudan. (Youtube version of same clip is longer)
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But why let sense get in the way of a good rant!
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Almost back on thread...
1. I too remember Mick Smith as a Fg Off. He's done very well and I wish him good fortune.
2. Despite the RAF Regt's banter over the years, they really are part of the RAF's overall capability. I think the case for elements to be present on the ground (alongside all the others needed to turn around aircraft and process/load the entitled pax) is both sound and enduring. Indeed, I expect there will be some Regt personnel there, just not as highly visible and newsworthy as RM.
3. The UK is usually quite slow off the mark compared with others. My predecessor in squadron command related at our HO/TO that after being alerted and preparing he and the squadron had been awaiting the order to go into 'x' for so long that the window of opportunity had closed. Germany, Italy and France had all been in and out the previous day.
News reports indicate that some of our entitled personnel have now been brought out by RAF.
1. I too remember Mick Smith as a Fg Off. He's done very well and I wish him good fortune.
2. Despite the RAF Regt's banter over the years, they really are part of the RAF's overall capability. I think the case for elements to be present on the ground (alongside all the others needed to turn around aircraft and process/load the entitled pax) is both sound and enduring. Indeed, I expect there will be some Regt personnel there, just not as highly visible and newsworthy as RM.
3. The UK is usually quite slow off the mark compared with others. My predecessor in squadron command related at our HO/TO that after being alerted and preparing he and the squadron had been awaiting the order to go into 'x' for so long that the window of opportunity had closed. Germany, Italy and France had all been in and out the previous day.
News reports indicate that some of our entitled personnel have now been brought out by RAF.
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To expand on Toadstool's reply, the RAF Regt were the wrong end of banter during the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles as the 'short range desert group' and known for keeping the EFI safe
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Do the RAF Regt have a formed unit that provides the "Spearhead" regiment?
I would be surprised if 40 Cdo are not being augmented by specialists in airfield security.
Back on track, the RAF Regt don't have a Battalion/Commando sized unit sat on standby for this sort of thing. We have troops on the AMPTs and TACPs, but that isn't newsworthy.
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I am sorry to have turned over a stone or, dare I say, a Rock!
Given the Regiment's role of Force Protection, I would have been surprised to find it far from an airfield or Line of Communications.
Rather like Marines on an airfield, come to think of it.
Given the Regiment's role of Force Protection, I would have been surprised to find it far from an airfield or Line of Communications.
Rather like Marines on an airfield, come to think of it.
I couldn't help looking up the name of the film starring a very young Kenneth More and an Indian locomotive. It's North West Frontier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...rontier_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_...rontier_(film)
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We had a RM detachment at RAF Luqa, Malta in the 70's. Very quick off the mark when an aircraft decanted several not so friendly vehicles onto the runway.
Rather like Marines on an airfield
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