Thread: Employment Opportunities

Originally Posted by BBC

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Didn't the contract say, 'pre-cooked meals'?



Dangerous looking place there, stay safe.

Cheers
Simon

they do call thier ratpacks "MRE" - Meal, Ready to Eat........ those ones were just preheated too!

IF I had any of the needed experience for that job I'd jump on it. I'm sure a lot of people would think it is a silly thing to do but a job like that would be amazing...especially if you stayed alive.

Xav

From the look of the type of vehicles used and the loading practices, you could use some Australian rough country road train expertise, and the road trains, as well as competent operators.

A lot of Australian transport people were employed in Vietnam by Alaska Barge and Tug, the big logistics contractors to the US forces there.

Originally Posted by JohnE

No mate its getting close to coffee picking time and I need any excuse to get away, the nuts have been pretty average this year, I didn;t expect to be here for that , the iraqis are dragging there feet on the new academy contract.

As i said horses for courses, if you have a degree of background training you go into auto mode , you don;t think about it. Most training methods for you to go into auto mode you need to do enough repetitions, roughly 2,500-3,000 before you do things automatically. No thought processes involved.
Most people have skills they have developed over time and there reactions are automatic to a variety of things, whether they be life threatening or otherwise.

Overall its looks interesting over there.


john

SIL has had a bad year with their limes, and they are not too far from you.

One of my best mates was in charge of similar training here at home and has said the same things many times re the number of repetitions to get things to become a reflex reaction.

[/QUOTE] the stan is looking interesting, at least its not flat. [/QUOTE]

JohnE,

It certainly is not flat, in the main. It is one of the the most visually striking places I have yet seen. The following series of photos were taken when I was doing a consultancy for the UN who were intending to put in a number of Bailey bridges in Bamiyan Province. Bamiyan is infamous for being the location where the Taliban destroyed the statue images of Buddha.

Bamiyan is the province of the Hazara people who are the remaining reminder of where Genghis Khan roamed doing business. They are quite asiatic in appearance and it is the only place in Afghanistan where I have been able to observe women...you very rarely see women without a burqua anywhere else in the country, unless she is European.

The consultancy was a great gig...I had a helicopter at my soul disposal for 5 days and hence, I was able to take a lot of mountain scenery photos.

Have a look at the places where the people inhabit, and also note the helicopter flying up valleys below the mountain tops...the air is pretty thin and they take a 'run up' to get over mountain passes.

I have been privileged with the opportunities I have had....now...whats next?

Given the beauty of the place, and the generally woeful condition of the roads, Afghanistan stands out as a classic of a 4WD destination...............one day.

Mate
they are absolutely amazing, and what a gig getting your own whirlybird.
I'll think I'll hit up some of the afghani companies as well. When shane talked about working out in the boonies, I didn;t quite picture it like that. It is certainly much more picturesque than flat ied laden desert,

btw only realised when i deleted the email off the pm that it was shane you were talking about.


keep them coming


john