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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nuclear1 on January 21, 2010, 04:27:39 pm

Title: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 21, 2010, 04:27:39 pm: So, on the ides of March, my unit's sending me on my first deployment ever. Qatar. Whoop. I'm excited.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: iamzack on January 21, 2010, 04:46:21 pm: bet its warm in qatar...
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Post by: Rodo on January 21, 2010, 04:52:31 pm: Be carefull then :)
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 21, 2010, 05:03:13 pm: Hope you get Bastion. It's like a home away from home.

If you get a FOB. Just stay cool.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 21, 2010, 05:37:47 pm: Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 21, 2010, 05:03:13 pm
Hope you get Bastion. It's like a home away from home.

If you get a FOB. Just stay cool.

Looks like it's gonna be Al Udeid Air Base. Could be a lot worse I suppose.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 22, 2010, 01:37:33 am: Not wanting you to go into any detail, aren't the head sheds putting you on a pre-deployment tour to acclimatise first?
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Dilmah G on January 22, 2010, 11:33:00 am: Doesn't look as crowded as it was before, are you aircrew or?
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2010, 04:16:17 pm: Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 22, 2010, 01:37:33 am
Not wanting you to go into any detail, aren't the head sheds putting you on a pre-deployment tour to acclimatise first?
That's essentially what this is. I finished my initial qualification courses here in the States, and what usually happens next is they just send us up in one of the jets here and do our first few flights over Nebraska. Instead, what they're doing is sending a few of us to do the flight phase of our training over in Qatar.

Quote from: Dilmah G on January 22, 2010, 11:33:00 am
Doesn't look as crowded as it was before, are you aircrew or?
Yep.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Thaeris on January 22, 2010, 04:33:50 pm: Are you an officer or an enlisted man, Nuclear?

...I'm merely interested as I was a cadet at one time - I also have several friends who will be 2nd Lieutenants when the year is over.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2010, 04:35:47 pm: Enlisted.
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 22, 2010, 05:51:17 pm: Enlisted man. Good stuff, I volunteered for my posting and now it's officially the biggest regiment in the British Army for a whole year.

Are you AWACS JBCIS or Logistal?
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2010, 10:04:46 pm: Neither. Recon onboard one of these:
(http://www.aviationspectator.com/files/images/RC-135-Rivet-Joint-41.jpg)

The RAF has guys that do the same thing, IIRC. Just use a different platform. (Pretty sure this is one your linguists use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker-Siddeley_Nimrod)
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Dilmah G on January 23, 2010, 01:14:03 am: The Nimrod?

Not anymore mate. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6957920.ece
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 23, 2010, 12:34:36 pm: Yeah, rumor was the RAF was looking into buying some RJ's at some point. Not sure what the status of that is now, though.

Hell, they want some of our 35+ year old airframes, we'd be happy to give them some...
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: Dilmah G on January 23, 2010, 12:57:38 pm: They should just keep the things, they're not saving *that* much money, and by pulling the Nimrod, they lose a chunk of their local SAR cover.
Title: Re: Woot (off to the desert with me)
Post by: T-Man on January 28, 2010, 05:25:05 pm: All the best Nuclear1! Safe flying.