Chinook Crew 'Chick': Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember

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It is also a book which will give the public some insight into the life of a Policeman and how they have to deal with PTSD. Sheila Hancock [asked], ‘are you an author my dear’ and I said ‘no, no I’m not an author, I’m a Chinook Crewman,’ even though I’ve been [away] for a year and a half at this point.

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Liz’sgreatest honour of all her duties was serving on the Medical Emergency Response Team or “MERT”, flying ambulance as it was commonly known. Around 1500 kids came and looked around that day, and my little brother was still at school, he got to look around, but the best bit was the teachers that had said to me that ‘you’ll never amount to anything if you don’t get a degree’ are suddenly asking me is they can look around the Chinook. During my transition into civilian life, that year I was starting to unravel, I could have picked up the phone, but you don’t. Unable to eliminate the enemy without severe losses, the ground forward air controller had requested immediate close air support.Down, Northern Ireland, she attended RAF Cranwell on her 19th birthday to begin her exciting career. Starting from such a young age, Liz reflected on where it all started, going with her brother to his BARB test. This is a genuinely unique tale that only Liz could tell, which ends with her battling the memories that haunted her, long after she had left the battlefield. She deployed to Timor-Leste in 2000 and again in 2004, where she narrowly escaped death twice – first in a near-fatal helicopter crash and again during the surgery that followed.

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Clearly put on this earth to keep our military history alive it’s also Adam’s commitment, relatability and genuine love for Veterans that makes these podcasts a must listen. After calmly writing a suicide note to her family and friends, she began to swallow 95 pills, one by one, before closing her eyes for one last time, “my brain finally at peace”.McConaghy felt the Chinook jolt with a loud bang and was slammed into the side of the metal fuselage. But such support was only made available during her last three years of service, towards the end of the allied involvement in Afghanistan. I was sat in the foyer of the Careers office and there was a magazine on the table with a guy hanging out the side of a helicopter on what I thought was a rope.