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Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
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Originally posted by Orion View PostNot just the RAF the army reserve calls the AA in the event of a vehicle breakdown ...
The 'A' Team????'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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Originally posted by Orion View PostGlad you think its funny .... you are joking of course ???
I drive 'White Fleet' vehicles regularly...if they break down a civilian company...possibly the AA (I'm not sure to be honest) will come and recover you.
'Green Fleet' vehicles...if they are moving in convoys...will do so in packets...usually by Company / Squadron.
The last packet will always have a recovery vehicle (wrecker)...crewed by a couple of recovery mechanics...
Their job is to recover broken-down / damaged vehicles and get them to a place where they can be repaired.
Great soldiers with a real 'can-do' attitude.
That model works in both the Regular Army and Army Reserve.
If a Green Fleet vehicle is not moving as part of a convoy...maybe singularly or in a pair...then they won't have a wrecker with them.
So if a vehicle from Inverness breaks down on the M6 Southbound somewhere around Coventry...then it makes sense that a contractor will come out and recover them...though I've never personally seen this myself.
Also, a lot of the day to day heavy lifting of armour is done by contractors; if it wasn't you'd have soldiers continually tied up in traffic jams on the UKs wonderful motorway network.
They'd never get any military training done.
Using contractors isn't always a bad thing!'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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Originally posted by spider View PostI was being tongue in cheek Mate...
I drive 'White Fleet' vehicles regularly...if they break down a civilian company...possibly the AA (I'm not sure to be honest) will come and recover you.
'Green Fleet' vehicles...if they are moving in convoys...will do so in packets...usually by Company / Squadron.
The last packet will always have a recovery vehicle (wrecker)...crewed by a couple of recovery mechanics...
Their job is to recover broken-down / damaged vehicles and get them to a place where they can be repaired.
Great soldiers with a real 'can-do' attitude.
That model works in both the Regular Army and Army Reserve.
If a Green Fleet vehicle is not moving as part of a convoy...maybe singularly or in a pair...then they won't have a wrecker with them.
So if a vehicle from Inverness breaks down on the M6 Southbound somewhere around Coventry...then it makes sense that a contractor will come out and recover them...though I've never personally seen this myself.
Also, a lot of the day to day heavy lifting of armour is done by contractors; if it wasn't you'd have soldiers continually tied up in traffic jams on the UKs wonderful motorway network.
They'd never get any military training done.
Using contractors isn't always a bad thing!
The thing is that soldier who was replaced was as a soldier multitasked.
As I understand it there is still a military HET capability via sponsored reserves (they are civvies for the day to day driving to the training area but can be mobilised for deployment)
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Originally posted by DeV View PostThe DF also now have a white (or be it green/black) now. Afaik it is DF owned and DF driven
The thing is that soldier who was replaced was as a soldier multitasked.
As I understand it there is still a military HET capability via sponsored reserves (they are civvies for the day to day driving to the training area but can be mobilised for deployment)
So in war time they get mobilised.
I'm not a 'spotter' but apparently the way to distinguish is that if a HET is double-manned the crew are soldiers...single-manned one of those SR dudes.
They drive these (and armoured variants of) https://www.army-technology.com/projects/oshkosh/
The only person I've ever spoken to about it was a doorman at a nightclub in Salisbury...he was in the HET Sqn at Bulford...said the civvy SR thing had ruined a great trade...and was getting out...to be a full-time doorman.'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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Air Corps deployed to Donegal to fight gorse fire.
Helicopters now in action tackling a major gorse fire in West #donegal pic.twitter.com/1tFcKp5fED
— Greg Hughes (@GregHughes2) April 22, 2019
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