HU 27 Sqdn on TV tonight (Tuesday)

[hobby]

BBC1 22:35 Hrs BST almost an hour tracing 12 months of 27 Sqdn.

[Keith Jones]

Thanks for that, Hobby. I'll set the VCR right now.

[Kevin Farnell]

Watched this, but was somewhat disappointed.
Seemed to spend as much time with individuals Internet dating as active service.
Come on Beeb, you can do better than that.

Kevin

[Quixoticish]

Missed it, was watching the Skins finale. Is it going to be repeated?

[Steve M]

Both Mrs M and I watched the documentary and were very impressed. It showed the members of the Chinook crews in a very good light as people doing a dangerous job in an ailien environment but at the same time trying to keep some degree of normality in their daily routine.
Mrs M has no interest in aviaton whatsoever but was suitably impressed. I think the title of the programme "One Life" reflected it's content in that it showed them men doing their job and gave us a taster of snapshot of the emotions they have to cope with.
A good section of the programme showed the crews in active service but with the emphasis being on the people. I for one found it far more interesting than an hour of watching the Chinook in action would have been.

Steve M

[Stewart Pearson]

Totally agree with Steve M. A thoroughly interesting behind the scenes look at what our guys are doing in very trying and sometimes harrowing situations.

As we all know, Chinooks are large and slow, and lets face it you can hear one coming from miles off. Yet these guys are daily flying at ultra low level through ground fire (rifle and RPG) in support of the ground troops

Hats off to them all.

And if the guy had to use the internet to chat up some totty then that's perfectly understandable and showed the human side of the Sqn.

After all where the h*ll is he going to pull in Kandahar???

Cheers

Stew

[Pringle]

Bugger! Totally missed this one, any news of a repeat or YouTube stream?

[Trev Clark]

I caught the last two thirds, thanks to the HU here, thanks Hobby!!

Interesting programme, and illustrates what a sh.tty job our services have been landed with, and just what a super way they are dealing with it.

Although I missed the start, it looked to me like 'Wokka' crews are teamed up like the old WW2 bomber crews, or maybe that should read 'Coastal Command crews ' with the pilots swapping captain duties and the crewmen swapping roles 'down the back' on each task.

If this is so, that must really make a difference, these guys seemed to have 'bonded' much better than we did in the dreaded 'old days' when you flew with anyone and everyone on the Sqn. Do the Merlins use this system Tom?

[Pringle]

I'm pretty sure (Not totally as i'm about 5 months away from my first det) that you go out in flights (Normal) but you stick to a 'crew' during your month. It saves the messing round of changing crews and learning what the egos up the front want/expect. With regards to captaincy and number 1 crewman, not totally sure as most of the guys who have gone out are on their first det so generally a flight/master up the front and the fresh young buck down the back.

Once you have done a few dets and become combat ready I'd imagine that you would swap.

[Techy111]

In reply to this did anyone catch the Channel 5 shock doc last night about war trophies? Seeing the difference between forces after watching both Docs was amazing....

I served at Odiham in my last tour before de-mob and the crews on 33 Sqn Pumas used to stick together as a crew but only on deployment.

Tony