THE BRITISH ARMY ALWAYS COMES TO THE RESCUE?

[quattro]

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That’s great pics

 

[Boysground]

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Mrs Bg and I think that was probably not taken on his iPhone. It’s cracking

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[Buggerallbandwidth]

5000 temporary visas will not cut the mustard. 150 military tanker drivers will not cure it. It's a long standing EU / UK problem

https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-looming-truck-driver-shortage-trucker-haulier-brexit-hgv/

Don't think it would be much different even without BREXIT and Covid. Been building for years. Sh1t pay, sh1t hours, sh1t rest facilities, sh1t food stops, no tests or training to speak of for 18 months, no youngsters prepared to work like this.

 

[tractorsandcows]

Bet there is stacks of tankers at Tewkesbury parked up rotting away????

What after the battle in the Wars of the Roses

 

[Campbell]

Back again. Typhoon from Conningsby today?

 

[Still Farming]

What after the battle in the Wars of the Roses

Just as well possibly?
Does Army transport ever move other than repainting there for different campaign s???

 

[Castle Farm]

Mrs Bg and I think that was probably not taken on his iPhone. It’s cracking.

He has an expensive camera.

 

[Castle Farm]

 

[Boysground]

Hercules, Apaches and chinooks mostly going over me. I’ve been trying for years to get a good photo of an Apache but they keep just out of range of my phone

Chinooks make my house shake as they go over low. The Hercules are usually going to a drop zone on the plain, it’s not unusual for the back door to be open and you can sometimes see the guys getting ready to jump.

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[tw15]

Hercules, Apaches and chinooks mostly going over me. I’ve been trying for years to get a good photo of an Apache but they keep just out of range of my phone

Chinooks make my house shake as they go over low. The Hercules are usually going to a drop zone on the plain, it’s not unusual for the back door to be open and you can sometimes see the guys getting ready to jump.

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Go up to Enford to the biggest army tennant to do avadex always look forward to seeing the army stuff moving about as well as most years seeing the great bustards . Have to map my route from the farm with the gps to some fields as it can take 20 minutes to get to them across the army tracks as could easily get lost out there .

 

[Boysground]

Not as good a photo as the fast jets but just above my farm

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[tw15]

I get the training helicopters come down here nearly at 2 hour intervals when doing training usually in pairs start off in daylight in trainers then night time they then move up to apaches doing the same usually make the telly go haywire when they are about .

 

[Lincoln75]

So all the headlines are saying? Dont get me wrong i think the armed forces do a great job, i support them 100 percent, but come come how many are tankerdriver qualified? i bet its not many, its a great headline but as always, when you dig below the surface they are hollow words?

The Army is more than capable of driving tankers of fuel up and down the country ,do you really think they all run around Salisbury Plain shouting bang?
What do you think all those vehicles and aircraft run on? not to mention transporting things considerably more dangerous than petrol .

The Royal Logistic Corps

We are the Army’s professional logisticians keeping the Field Army marching, its helicopters flying, its vehicles moving and its tanks and guns firing. We enable its deployment and supply it with everything it needs, wherever it operates, throughout the world.

www.army.mod.uk

 

[Still Farming]

I get the training helicopters come down here nearly at 2 hour intervals when doing training usually in pairs start off in daylight in trainers then night time they then move up to apaches doing the same usually make the telly go haywire when they are about .

They know how to blow fuel too.

 

[kiwi pom]

Are they sitting at home on the dole?

No probably not, that's why you make them a good offer to come back.
There were rumours a while back that one of the big fuel companies were pushing drivers out in favour of agency replacements. So the shortage probably makes sense as agency drivers work for the highest bidder and are very sought after at the moment.
I've also seen a couple of shift patterns, that the transport companies think are acceptable and they're flat out stupid.
Fuel delivery used to be something to work towards as it was near the top of the ladder. The fuel companies have made it just another job.
Don't know what its like here now but a few years ago you could make more per hour hauling milk than petrol.

 

[JeepJeep]

Baffles me why people know more about other countries.

 

[Courier]

As long as ten years?

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Roll on ten yrs and it will be farmers and food in short supply

Been hearing that one regularly for the last 60 years …..

 

[glasshouse]

Been hearing that one regularly for the last 60 years …..

Once the bonkers subsidy fuelled contract farming model collapses, they will wonder why there are no farmers left.

 

[Yale]

Been hearing that one regularly for the last 60 years …..

Think about it,food production is now in so few producer hands.

Also as a society we are open to immediate destruction as six missiles into the UK refineries would paralyse every aspect of society.

We are sitting ducks!

 

[kiwi pom]

Baffles me why people know more about other countries.

Is that aimed at me?