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Post by scrooge on May 24, 2014 13:47:02 GMT 12
Further to my earlier comment, I do absolutely agree that training is required and it should be done as realistically as possible, just under the proviso that there is no chance of endangering the public (and to a very slightly lesser extent the personnel involved- only because there is always some risk to participants in any given activity).
Recently the NZ military have had some exercises fail to safeguard their own and these incidents have had their own enquiries.
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Post by avenger on May 27, 2014 15:54:34 GMT 12
Re missing the DZ. Back November 1958 the Army conducted an exercise in the Ruapehu/Turangi areas. To deliver aerial photographs back to the Army, Pilot Officer Terry Mills flew a Harvard with a cannister and small parachute under the wing from Ohakea to the designated area. The agreed target zone indicated as top of a canvas covered Land Rover. The drop made and the aircraft banked steeply to watch drop progress, I don't need to add further.
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Eng
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Post by Eng on Jun 5, 2014 17:12:52 GMT 12
A DROP OF THE DOINGS! Treat this with the utmost confidence as I am afraid some itinerant deer stalker may read this . Back in the foot hills behind Cxford there was a valley in which a group of would be aircrew were being taught the fundamentals of survival. If memory serves me correctly we were in the last stages of Lesson 5 "How to cook a possum " This was proving rather difficult because lesson 1 "How to catch a possum" was missing from the instructors manual. Word had got around that Ross Ewing was going to drop a bottle of whiskey to the troops. Anxious eyes were being cast at the top of the valley entrance where we figured he would come from. A thirsty cheer went up as we heard the approaching sound of the deliverer. Later there were some who swore they saw an object fall from the bomb rack of Ross's Harvard.Others swore on a stack of beer cans that nothing left the aircraft. Much later there were dire rumours that Ross and his unnamed passenger "force landed" at a secret paddock and swiped the booty. Perhaps with the technical advancement of electronic detecting devices one day this rumour will be dispelled but in the meantime we will never know . You may ask how this single malt was to be fairly distributed ? I possessed an after shave little bottle spray (a vapourisateur). Two throat squirts per person!!
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