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Trev Clark wrote:

Dave, the third chap is the MSO (Mission System Operator).

So that will probably be any non-pilot who is too young/expensive/good looking to be made redundant from the Tornado/VC10/Nimrod/Herk fleet who has managed to avoid being made a rear door gunner on the new Chinooks!

one wonders where the other crews will end up

See my last words above, dave

A fantastic article on Door Gunners...

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Door_Gunner

A fantastic article on Door Gunners...

Speaking as an ex (occasional) Door Gunner myself (on the little known Puma Gunship!), I think that the article is pretty correct, but only as far as the RAF Regiment gunners who manned the other GPMG!

jonesey2k wrote:A fantastic article on Door Gunners...

Cracking stuff...I do so miss military humour

Trev, no need to explain yourself, we understand.............

Derek

Voyager is still so wrong, it sounds awful.

What's the betting that when in sevice it will get a more approprate 'nickname' which everyone will use

The best one I've heard for the Tristar is "Large, slow-moving target"

Voyager is still so wrong, it sounds awful.

Perhaps they put names in a hat and pulled that one out! Sorry, that would have been cheap, if the MOD was involved they probably had a comitee working for years on it. I suppose it might have a connection with four previous tankers...starting with a V! Those Oxbridge types are clever sods