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i imagion that there is not much of an I76 sitting at the end of the runway there, any chance of a pic if you can?

Originally Posted by 85 county

i imagion that there is not much of an I76 sitting at the end of the runway there, any chance of a pic if you can?

This IL76 carcase is still here.

Everything portable has been stripped from it, including the engines. Heard of one enterprising gentleman looking at it with the view of disassembling it and chewing it up with a 'mulcher/shredder' for the purpose of recycling the aircraft grade aluminium:

thanks, i did a couple of flights with one of Buke's crews who came in about 2 hours after that hit. and a week before the second ll 76 got taken out in the same way.

the motors were on the flight that got clipped, shredding EX soviet aircraft is usually uneconomical due to the fact that they are full of a few zillion steel rivets.

Thought today, for a micro-second, that I was back in Melbourne...traffic congestion on the roads:



Had to go up to Villa Somalia to do a recce for some work that needs to be done. Nice to get out.

This is looking from the roof of the Villa, south toward the coast:







Been busy here.

Sorry to hear about the 3 Australians killed and 7 wounded in Afghanistan.

A week and a half ago we lost 70 AMISOM soldiers killed one morning then, 40 the next. Sad.

that's certainly one big toll of lives that we wouldn't otherwise hear about -

makes one wonder if better training would help minimise the toll to African peacekeepers (yes, I know - who would do it?)

and it's so easy for those of us well removed from there to be unaware that they too, have family

thanks... and take care BBC -

btw I'll be travelling through Kyogle to Beaudesert next week -

Originally Posted by 87County

makes one wonder if better training would help minimise the toll to African peacekeepers (yes, I know - who would do it?)

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yes it would be very interesting to see comments on this. but BBC would need to be in the metal meet zone to get a read and he has family so !!!

when i turned up in little brown peoples with funny eyes land to TRAIN i quickly found out i needed to be TRAINED.

i suspect they as individuals would be up to scratch but would lack, coms intel and air.

Lovely to see lots of South African military hardware deployed anyway.

Training of peacekeepers is a touchy subject: doesn't really fall under standard Infantry Combat remit, so Defence budget doesn't cover softer deployment training. So it gets botched or half-done.

Also, rules of engagement get fuzzy, so troops on the ground struggle to react correctly in heat of the moment.

Been there, don that, have the t-shirt and PTSD to show for it

This recent media report gives an account of the mentoring that is provided here by a private contractor to the African Union whose funding comes literally direct from the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/wo...11somalia.html

Some people with interesting backgrounds..one sub-contractor was the man who organised the plane-load of 'tourists' who were detained in Harare one time, on the way up north to help Mr Mark Thatcher...as tourists they seemed to be carrying a lot of ammo.

Hard work mentoring here though. It is done from the Force Commander down. Makes me really understand how much investment we make in the ARA with our JNCO-SNCO's.

Don't fret about the ROE's..this ain't a Peacekeeping Mission yet.

There is certainly a different value placed on life. One contingent here has T-55s. In the past there has been significant losses, even before this last stint. Full on FIBUA (Fighting In Built Up Areas), and they won't use their T-55s because they are COE..(Contingent Owned Equipment) and if they lost one...it would be a signifcant loss...Mmmmm...but, you've lost 40 odd soldiers!! TIA..Jakeslouw can translate that.