Comments by "John Allen" (@johnallen7807) on "RAF joins 70 aircraft in largest US-led readiness exercise ever" video.

Call me cynical but on the one hand the Wing Commander says we can be there in 20hrs then the commentator says it took a year of planning! We need to take defence seriously not do thing like scrap the entire C130 Hercules fleet when they had 12 yrs of service life left which has left us with a serious loss of SF capability.
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@1chish Try reading what I said. They had 12 Yrs of service life (at least) following the major upgrade. Even the Chief of the Air Staff admitted to the Defence select committee that the A400M could not fulfill the full role of the C130, I also understand it has very poor reliability rates. I've worked with the Hercs for yrs including 50+ jumps, tactical extractions and air resupply. the plane and 47 squadron were superb, have you had any first hand experience of them?
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@1chish Of course I did, you did 2 balloon descents before the 5 aircraft for your wings.
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@1chish So was I, have you ever bought a C130 in at night on blocks of Hexy? I served 1970 to 87 and reached a higher rank than you although I'm not putting that or my unit on YouTube.
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@1chish Loadmaster aircrew are not commissioned and I was the "maroon machine" so double the seniority lol. I suspect our paths crossed, I still miss the challenge and the friends, good luck to you too.
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