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I’ve known Kev for a very long time and I’ve already chatted with him directly about the incident described.
I’ll happily go on record here and say what a bloody great job he and the other crews performed under incredibly stressful circumstances. I sincerely hope there will be some form of medallic recognition in due course. BV |
I'm sure it makes us all feel proud.
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It's reported that 365 Afghan pilots and numerous aircraft are in Uzbekistan requesting U.S. evacuation. Taliban says they want the aircraft "back". Type aircraft unk to me.
Source: A Qatari News Organization. |
Originally Posted by Bob Viking
(Post 11105997)
I sincerely hope there will be some form of medallic recognition in due course.
BV |
I just hope this is the end of Poni Ops
( Poking Our Noses In Other People’s Sh*t ) |
Why break the habit of centuries? We (both UK Govt and East India Company) were poking into ‘Stan since 1800 … initially to keep Napoleon and Imperial Russia away from India. I guess it’s routine by now.
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11106101)
I just hope this is the end of Poni Ops
( Poking Our Noses In Other People’s Sh*t ) |
Trenchant review of The Afghanistan Papers (Craig Whitlock) by Max Hastings in today's Sunday Times : "As for the generals, I have come to believe that the 'can-do' ethos, which the British Army promotes as enthusiastically as its US counterpart, has been a disaster thus far in the 21st century because it instutionalises falsehood.."
Worth reading. |
That’s half the problem, Governments continually chopping the military, but believing we still have the capability of the WW1 military and the military seniority not telling them how it is.
Bangladesh has a bigger military than us. |
Originally Posted by XXmet
(Post 11105509)
Looks like Arizona.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....edc1222f6c.jpg And those trucks look a bit shabby for America, and all are cabover designs. |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11106690)
That’s half the problem, Governments continually chopping the military, but believing we still have the capability of the WW1 military and the military seniority not telling them how it is.
Bangladesh has a bigger military than us. |
Well the defence budget is a farce, the upgrade to the warrior giving it a true update in capability was cancelled after a 450 mil spend to buy the new Ajax which has doubled in weight and is inoperable due to noise and crew comfort.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/warr...ng-in-service/ https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/ajax...-halted-again/ We seem to have one of the biggest budgets for the smallest military which wastes money like this hand over foot. 450 million might be small fry in the overall scheme, but they call add up, and then when you do put forward purchases such as the fleet aux’s ships you put them overseas thus crippling the future of the U.K. infrastructure. Heck the Ajax for all the whitewashed in the Union Jack isn’t British. I just wonder how much US equipment is now in Russia, China and Iran being examined. |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11106729)
Well the defence budget is a farce, the upgrade to the warrior giving it a true update in capability was cancelled after a 450 mil spend to buy the new Ajax which has doubled in weight and is inoperable due to noise and crew comfort.
We seem to have one of the biggest budgets for the smallest military which wastes money like this hand over foot. 450 million might be small fry in the overall scheme, but they call add up, and then when you do put forward purchases such as the fleet aux’s ships you put them overseas thus crippling the future of the U.K. infrastructure. Heck the Ajax for all the whitewashed in the Union Jack isn’t British. |
Defence surely safe in the hands of the strategic masterminds running the country.
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Originally Posted by XXmet
(Post 11105509)
The photo might be a "blow for Biden". Looks like Arizona.
It is not anywhere in the USA. No license plates on the ear of the semi-trailers, no DOT details on the side of the truck cabs, and the trucks are Iranian manufactured Chapars. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....155dcfefbe.png https://irannewsdaily.com/2020/01/ir...cturing-plant/ |
Bangladesh has a bigger military than us. |
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sta...ts-afghanistan
State Dept blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan |
Update on the Panjshir valley.
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Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11107012)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sta...ts-afghanistan
State Dept blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan — At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren’t able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind to flee. An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said that the would-be passengers were Afghans, many of whom did not have passports or visas, and thus were unable to leave the country. He said they had left the airport while the situation was sorted out. |
Those who have organised the flights, and are on the ground in Kabul, seem to disagree. From today’s Grauniad.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nistan-blocked Biden under pressure as NGO says flights from Afghanistan blocked |
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