RSAF Celebrate 10 years of Operation in Peace Pirarie

RSAF CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF CHINOOK TRAINING IN THE US

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/display.asp?number=2439

What started as a small detachment of personnal to US, Texas State for the initial patch of Chinook CH-47D/SD Helicopter technical training have evolved to a ten years close relationship between RSAF Helicopters community and the US Army (they are operating the chinook instead of the US Air Force) under the Peace Prairie programme. The detachment provide RSAF the best possible operational training ground for both pilots and maintenance specialist which otherwise would not have been possible to acquire locally with Singapore constraint air space.

Our flying and maintenance squadron, with almost 10 years of Peace Prairie operation, have carve out a small lifely community in Texas consisting of Airmen, ground crew and their families. I look forward to joining them in 2 years time. In the meantime, I will have to bear the tropical humidity of Singapore for a while.