Thread: Employment Opportunities

Originally Posted by RobHay

....as a Husband to a female for 30 years and the Father of 5 females (Ages range from 29 to 8)

Rob, I have just been reflecting on your comments above.....I now understand
...............it was a plea for help!!!

Sorry mate, we are on the way...I have retasked a chopper and some nasty boys that like hanging out of them ....pack a bag and get ready to bolt!

Cheers,

BBC

The weather has been changing here, cooling down from the 46C days, and the days are starting to get shorter...it'll soon be back to -20C nights.

In the meantime though, we have had several dust storms bringing their joy. They descend and then we have a day or two of remarkedly diminished visibility.

These photos were taken by my helicopter manager in Kandahar:











The dust penetrates absolutely everywhere!!!...perfectly painful around electronic euqipment...makes everything staticy (if there is such a word!)

Originally Posted by RobHay

BBC!, Heads up!...Gonna impart some knowledge to you....as a Husband to a female for 30 years and the Father of 5 females (Ages range from 29 to 8), I speak with some authority on the subject.
My advice, if followed, will go along way to assisting you to achiving domestic bliss......Okay ready for it,.............. pencils poised to take notes.............









GIVE UP NOW !.....It ain't gonna happen

True, In my experience and understanding of them women are like a TD5's whilst men are like a 2.25d.

The 2.25d will work till it breaks, then it will get belted with a ball hammer and a cheap and nasty screwdriver and socket set, it will then shout, spit and swear a bit. It will then will return to work till the job is done.

As opposed to the TD5, it will work efficiently and quietly until it breaks, then it needs therapy, lots of money spent on it, endless amounts of bits and pieces each costing more than the last, recalibration on a regular basis, new battery etc etc etc....

Then the problem is recorded forever in the little black box so even if you ever forget the ordeal, it wont. It will remind you at any moment that on this date at this time YOU DID THIS TO ME, IT"S YOUR FAULT.
It will eventually return to work, for an increase in outgoing costs and a decrease in overall workload. In the distant future if you dare to increase the workload, or reduce the outgoing costs (read the underlined and bolded text above.)

Originally Posted by dobbo

True, In my experience and understanding of them women are like a TD5's whilst men are like a 2.25d.

The 2.25d will work till it breaks, then it will get belted with a ball hammer and a cheap and nasty screwdriver and socket set, it will then shout, spit and swear a bit. It will then will return to work till the job is done.

As opposed to the TD5, it will work efficiently and quietly until it breaks, then it needs therapy, lots of money spent on it, endless amounts of bits and pieces each costing more than the last, recalibration on a regular basis, new battery etc etc etc....

Then the problem is recorded forever in the little black box so even if you ever forget the ordeal, it wont. It will remind you at any moment that on this date at this time YOU DID THIS TO ME, IT"S YOUR FAULT.
It will eventually return to work, for an increase in outgoing costs and a decrease in overall workload. In the distant future if you dare to increase the workload, or reduce the outgoing costs (read the underlined and bolded text above.)

GOLD!

Dobbo, you also forget what they said in the Godfather, talking about Sicily, but it has universal application:
"In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns"

11 Aug there was a local medevac of a Spec Ops Task Gp (SOTG) soldier just after midnight. The lone Aero Medevac Helo deployed from Tarin Kowt and experienced, what was termed in the Australian media, as a hard landing.

Subsequently, it took a further 5hrs to medevac the injured. The following photos are the recovery of the Combat Search & Rescue (CSAR) Pavehawk. A Pavehawk is a Blackhawk which can refuel mid-air, and can then stay up longer, looking for personnel.

















This shot will give people an idea of what a 'brown-out' is...from a distance...imagine the effect at night.









I was able to speak with the pilot and co-pilot here, and they told me how they had made one approach, aborted, then tried again, become disoriented in the brown-out...and we are talking 0100h here...a LH front tyre blew as it thumped in, which caused it to dig in on the rim and heel over, bringing it's rotors in contact with the ground and destroying them all.

Later I spoke with some boys who were carefully washing their Bushmaster...they were on the ground providing security...along with a number of other vehicles...and their vehicle was bombarded with pieces of the smashed carbon fibre rotor blades...and they were 150m from the Landing Point (LP). The medical team were on the ground, much closer to the LP...imagine the chaos in the dark....lethal pieces of blade flying everywhere...sheer luck there were no further casualties.

The casualties then had to wait a further 4-5 hrs before they were medevac'd. A problem of having only one AME capability at Tarin Kowt...write and express your concern to your local member!

The CH47 recovering the Pavehawlk is ADF.

You know your not going to have a good day if one of these picks you up as a target.

These are the Predator UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and they operate out of Kandahar Air Field. The have a particular nasty droning noise. I have never seen them operate but, believe they operate from a fair altitude and have a missile system to engage targets with.

They are control launched from the runway at KAF but, once airborne, they are then handed over to their mission control in a US base on the east coast of the USA....amazing. These are the weapon of choice for doing the occasional run over the side-line...into Pakistan.

If I'd read this anywhere else I'd reckon someone was having a good old leg pull.
How the heck does something like that fly??.
It must either hoot along or be extremely lightweight
Such tinny wings