Ash Rescue: Brits Abroad
 

Whats the likelyhood we will see a Chinook TAG (comprised of JRRF) operating off HMS Ocean as well as Herc and C-17 operating at low level to get our folks home?

Slim to no chance?

Frankly, have we not got better things to worry about than giving free lifts to tourists who are 'stranded' in friendly, hospitable countries (well apart from France :})?

About as much chance as I have of winning Miss World :}

Imagine the fuss if the RAF could find spare airframes to bring back Wayne and Waynetta Slob from Benidorm when the world and his missus knows that we don't have enough to keep Our Boys (and girls) safe in the rocky place.

Anyway, the hotels with pools out there are all full of trapped tourists, so how could the RAF accommodate their crews during the turn-around? They can't just kip down in a 10 x 10 pitched on the airfield, don't y'know?

I know exactly what you are saying!

However Brown pants is Commander in Chief and he has already sent three "big hitters" of the RN to help.
:ugh:

Wash your mouth out with soap, you 'orrible little man. As he has shown, Mr Brown is not capable of being in charge of two donkeys in a field of carrots.

The Commander in Chief is this person, who unlike Mr Brown, has all of our best interests at heart, all the time, not just the Nu Liabour few:

http://nickbaines.files.wordpress.co...izabeth-ii.jpg

Some amusing headlines today along the lines of "Royal Navy to repat grockles".

Which of the dozen or so ships are up and running then?

They have just started an "operation"to airlift 500 soldiers from 3rd Battalion the Rifles home from Akotiri.:ok:

"The BBC understands 500 British soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Rifles are being airlifted by chartered civilian jets from Cyprus to Spain, before sailing to the UK aboard HMS Albion."

You are too young to remember the Labour plonker called the Minister for Rain, Denis Howell. As soon as he was put in charge it threw it down.

I can confidently predict that HMS Albion will put to sea, have to go to the rescue of an idiot trying to cross the Atlantic in a wheelie bin somewhere the far side of the Azores, and finally make port at Guz a week after all the Iclandic sh!te has cleared and the aircraft are back in the skies burning up the ozone layer taking another load of slappers to Ibiza to catch/pass on their crabs/clap to/from the locals.

Ah, yes. I forgot Ark Royal was out that way.

Nice one Gainsey :E

No she is not. Thats a Picture of the Queen.

....aaannd extra Brownie Points for VecFec when he staggers home of a Friday night.

Hmm, anyone seen which Civvies are stranded outside UK? Do we really want or need them all back?

We have 3 Commander in Chiefs

Land

http://www.army.mod.uk/images/centra...r_wall_200.jpg


Air

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafi...D07FC59F18.jpg


and Fleet

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/upload/i...0623130523.jpg

The Queen is the nominal head of the Armed Forces but she is not CinC.

Shouldn't that be "Commanders-in Chief" then?!

:}

ap:ok:

probably......... Commanders in Chief

If you guys can pull this one off - Gordon is promising you'll all get a new Single-Winged Brevet with the monologue of "IR" in the middle.


The IR stands for....


"InternASHnal Rescue"

Rigga,

Whereabouts in Anglia are you from? Ashford?

:)

Hmm, I wasn't too far off the mark by the sounds of it, the 200 civvies being put on a boat in Santander have been "selected by the British Embassy in Madrid". Said boat (missed it, Albion or Ocean) is there for troops coming home from Ops, civvies are a handy soundbite afterthought by Brown cronies I'd guess.

The Radio 4 bird reporting says some Army Colonel went onto the quayside and told other massed Brit repat hopefuls to leg it.

Typical Movers.:rolleyes:

A colonel broke the news? I thought the Mov policy is to make the most junior erk break the bad news while the MovO hides round the corner.

"Sirs, ma'ams, ladies and gents. Excuse ranks, etc."