Armchair Dragoons Forums

News:

  • Connections Online 2024 will be held 15-20 April, 2024 ~~ More Info here
  • Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

News

Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

Author Topic: Helicopters!  (Read 69174 times)

judgedredd

  • Guest
Reply #150 on: February 27, 2021, 06:41:53 AM
I spent many a miserable night on Otterburn. More like the Russian steppes than a national park in the UK  :)



bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #151 on: February 27, 2021, 06:43:20 AM
LOL - yes, its a bit rugged out there, but beautiful if you're only driving past it.

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


judgedredd

  • Guest
Reply #152 on: February 27, 2021, 06:45:29 AM
It is beautiful...if you can choose your day and time and walk at your leisure.

When it's your job,  and they tell you to do it on the most miserable day ever... and you have to force march 10 and more miles...it's horrible  :)



bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #153 on: February 27, 2021, 06:47:44 AM
As my old soldier dad would have said 'If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined'  ;D

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


judgedredd

  • Guest
Reply #154 on: February 27, 2021, 07:03:10 AM
There's definitely truth in that. The whole soldier thing relies on humour - otherwise they'd all just be sitting in a dank, cold, wet hole in the ground crying to each other.



bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7444
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #155 on: February 27, 2021, 09:02:26 AM
As my old soldier dad would have said 'If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined'  ;D

Doesn't that apply to life in general?  :P

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #156 on: February 27, 2021, 09:06:12 AM
Except that only one of them is joined voluntarily

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


bayonetbrant

  • Arrogance Mitigator & Event "Organizer"
  • Administrator
  • Staff Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 15381
  • Going mad, but at least going somewhere
    • Six Degrees of Radio
Reply #157 on: February 27, 2021, 09:06:34 AM
We had a low level fly-over of two AH-64's this morning. They were headed pretty much NW so may well have been heading up to Otterburn Camp in Northumberland  where the army has an extensive training area.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/otterburn-training-camp.html

The NC Army National Guard has an entire battalion of AH64s based adjacent to the airport here, so we get them flying around here all over the place most weekends, including a lot of night flights, to maintain the pilots' flying status

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++

Random acts of genius and other inspirations of applied violence.
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
Six Degrees of Radio for songs you should know by artists you should love


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #158 on: February 27, 2021, 09:08:13 AM
They probably have more of them than we do.

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #159 on: May 28, 2021, 04:39:54 PM

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #160 on: May 28, 2021, 04:59:52 PM
Absolutely amazing.

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7444
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #161 on: May 28, 2021, 05:29:06 PM
Is that Uncle Owen's house in the background?

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy


Doctor Quest

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1098
  • I'm not a real doctor.
Reply #162 on: May 28, 2021, 06:10:33 PM
I see my car keys.

Dammit!

"Everything you read on the internet is true." - Benjamin Franklin

"Something so addictive about the whole kill and loot dynamic, though." - Gusington


Staggerwing

  • Patreon Supporters
  • Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 4362
Reply #163 on: May 28, 2021, 10:16:55 PM
Once NASA works out the Marscopter's kinks they should send it out to photobomb some of the Chinese rover's landscape pix.

Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #164 on: May 29, 2021, 06:27:15 AM
 :biggrin:

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'