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We are now more than a week since the discussion about returning the two officers from DRC started, are they back? do we know when they will be back?
Why if it is proving difficult to hire a commercial air taxi do we not ask the Swedes or the Dutch?
Both have GIV-SP's which could do the trip in a single hop.
We are now more than a week since the discussion about returning the two officers from DRC started, are they back? do we know when they will be back?
Why if it is proving difficult to hire a commercial air taxi do we not ask the Swedes or the Dutch?
Both have GIV-SP's which could do the trip in a single hop.
If they had sent the LR-45 it would be back now.. Decision making should not be left in the Hands of the DOD.
Actually when you spend five minutes you can come up with a workable plan, bare with me...
You have Cairo and Nairobi as good Fuel and Night stop locations en-route, both have Irish Embassey's.
EIME-HECA-HKJK, is about 4000nm(might need a splash and dash en-route to HECA), its a long day in a LR-45 but its doable, next day Hop into GOMO get the troops back to Nairobi, jobs done, take your time traveling home.
Embassy of Ireland, find diplomatic and consular information for Irish citizens in Democratic Republic of Congo
The 2 personnel live in a location “outside the wire” in Goma. The FHQ is in Goma (as is the airport not sure if co-located).
There is a security threat to foreigners in DRC at the the moment.
Google Maps shows, what looks like, a UN camp at the airport.
It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
That's why you need a bigger aircraft capable of bringing a group of people capable of expediting the safe delivery of these two officers from their current location to a safe aircraft for immediate departure home.
We need to consider going forward, seeing as the UN clearly gives no consideration to it, the capability to deploy, and repatriate, all our people whom we deploy around the world to act on behalf of the state.
We cannot hope that another nation will look after our people. We are playing big boys rules now, we aren't a developing nation any more.
We are willing to deploy people anywhere overseas to show the world what great humanitarians the irish state is. When it goes wrong, it is no longer the Irish State that has the problem, it is the Defence forces.
For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
I was under the impression that there are 20,000 UN troops from all nations already in DRC. If they can't protect two men, what's an external force going to do?
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