Thread: Employment Opportunities

Originally Posted by p38arover

Here's one I took earlier. Gorgeous!

OOOOOOoooooooH.......I am in love.....and a nose ring too!

This sequence of photos was taken on a ride I took between TK - KAF last year to get a haircut. It was a pair of company Huey Iroquois.

The company has 12 Iroquois deployed here in country, 8 of which are mini-gun equipped gunships and 4 slicks. Not bad being in a company which packs more aerial fire spt than most of the coalition nations, and certainly Australia.

What a joke the Tiger Eurocopter is for the ADF! Guess what?...they won't operate here. Not with the altitude and temperatures. How much did they cost?

As you can see, the country south of Tarin Kowt runs out of the mountains and into fairly flat desert country but the country in between is fairly twisted and tortured........... in the geological sense.























More to follow once they have been uploaded...

Originally Posted by BBC

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What a joke the Tiger Eurocopter is for the ADF! Guess what?...they won't operate here. Not with the altitude and temperatures. How much did they cost?


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Is every capital purchase for the ADF badly compromised these days ??
The same mistakes appear to happen over and over. I wonder what goes on the tender process, is it poor initial specs or worse ??

Glad it isn't my ar$se on the line.

BTW, keep the pics coming, I love them. SWMBO is impressed too.....

good work, great photos, nothing like good tooling for the job.

Funny about those eurocopters an associate of mine (ex raafi) is a tech on that contract he is going over to france for 2 years as part of it. Must be costing them a bundle.

wheres the haircut photos??

just remembered the other blokes army nickname it was browndog.



john

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I commented earlier in this thread after seeing that and other of your pictures that your transport operation is extremely sub-standard and you need Australian rough country road train expertise. Oz road operators and logistics people would be running triples, doubles, and b-doubles, b-triples, and b-b's in that sort ofterrain subject to the aforementioned gradients and radii. If no height restrictions could double deck the containers. you provide he protection and shooters and I am sure the Oz ransport industry will do a better job than what you have pictured.

Brian, lets face it, Aussies just won't drive pretty trucks like these. The Afghani drivers do it hard. They drive a variety of vehicles, all very 2nd hand, but look at the effort they put into decorating them...not my taste.

nice one bbc

now i understand why the locals don't have curtains