Interested in Saudi Arabia?
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Agent86 Not heard of the two buckets before but whilst I can't comment on Saudi my experience of Brunei is not too disimmilar. The S*** bucket filled very quickly on arrival until I controlled my own destiny (Flt Cdr) and meanwhile the other bucket was providing holidays of a lifetime for the family. Then the superb flying qualities of two local helo pilots ended up giving me a severe whiplash by dropping me far too high into the sea on a dinghy drill exercise and that led to a stroke, which in turn led to my permanent grounding and exit stage right. I'd be very careful about how you are protected if you become grounded through the fault of a local. Whilst I had the umbrella of the MOD they never looked after me after the accident and even in the Courts they were complete Rsoles, I have no reason to believe that a private company would be any different. Cover yourself with loss of licence insurance - I'm glad I did.
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I'm considering Saudi (Tabuk) and have read with interest so far..
It seems that at least some of the agro comes from family related issues, but not heard much about life style for bachelors. Can anyone give any views on what it's like for a single bloke with no ties there?
Obviously the usual interests of "Birds, booze and curries" will take a bit of a hit, but what is the bottom line on the social life?. I suppose what I'm really asking is whether there's a nurses home nearby!
Thanks in advance - any views extremely useful. It's a big decision!
It seems that at least some of the agro comes from family related issues, but not heard much about life style for bachelors. Can anyone give any views on what it's like for a single bloke with no ties there?
Obviously the usual interests of "Birds, booze and curries" will take a bit of a hit, but what is the bottom line on the social life?. I suppose what I'm really asking is whether there's a nurses home nearby!
Thanks in advance - any views extremely useful. It's a big decision!
Chief hobby of the BWoS people who looked after the Lightnings when I first went to that corner of the Great Sandtray (apart from counting their money) was brewing illegal beer. This consisted of Kaliber, to which was added alcohol made from 5/5/5/5 - 5lb of potatoes, 5lb of lemons, 5 lb of sugar, 5 gallons of water. This was cooked up in a dustbin and the vapour distilled. To add the final touch, the colour was corrrected with a dash of gravy browning.......
Everything in the living compound seemed to be made out of white melamine, the local area was pretty awful - but the RSAF Officers' Mess was truly palatial.
Everything in the living compound seemed to be made out of white melamine, the local area was pretty awful - but the RSAF Officers' Mess was truly palatial.
