>We do have six of those helicopters but five were unavailable and only one was serviceable and that was the one, the medical helicopter in Athlone.
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>it was “stripped of all its medical equipment, given two machine guns and sent down to Cork and did the assault
This is disgraceful. The fact they can’t even get the basics of maintaining what we have, particularly when we have so little is nuts
Mission computers also failed on the CASA aircraft taking part.
Berry is right.
The movie lone survivor is based on an incident where the rescuing helicopter had no cover and it wound up being the worst single loss of life for the US military in Afghanistan.
Risky to say the least.
Surely Simon Coveney could lend them a boat or helicopter
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And only one boat too 😂😂
>We do have six of those helicopters but five were unavailable and only one was serviceable and that was the one, the medical helicopter in Athlone.
>
>it was “stripped of all its medical equipment, given two machine guns and sent down to Cork and did the assault
This is disgraceful. The fact they can’t even get the basics of maintaining what we have, particularly when we have so little is nuts
Mission computers also failed on the CASA aircraft taking part.
Berry is right.
The movie lone survivor is based on an incident where the rescuing helicopter had no cover and it wound up being the worst single loss of life for the US military in Afghanistan.
Risky to say the least.
Surely Simon Coveney could lend them a boat or helicopter