MwRYum
Major
Re: ASEAN military news
Funny thing was, I was assigned to Provost-Guard Dog unit detachment to TAB, supposedly my time spent with the M16S1 (just M16A1 but locally produced anyway, in fact what I was issued back then was M16 Vietnam variant, oh yeah with Colt mustang logo on the lower receiver) is very limited but I still managed to fare better on marksmanship and rifle handling than those base security, whom have to train more on stuff like those than we did.
Anyway, what M16S1 has is what you'd find on the M16A1 anyway.
That reminds me: back in my days the PAB postings was considered the best because of the accommodations and other creature comforts, Changi and TAB were the dreaded because the facilities were old...
And IIRC, in China those civilian-military airfields (many airports in China are dual-prupose) has the problem not just shared runway but also their ATC isn't that good.
As to how much the military operations interfere Changi's civilian operations, it'd be largely up to the placement of the 4th airstrip (if to operate those big planes originally stationed in PAB, it has to be long and wide) and how they segregate civilian-military air traffic; my money is that the Changi's air traffic will get hampered by some degree during major exercises, but given day-to-day patrols are handled by F-16s from TAB things shouldn't be that bad.
Funny thing was, I was assigned to Provost-Guard Dog unit detachment to TAB, supposedly my time spent with the M16S1 (just M16A1 but locally produced anyway, in fact what I was issued back then was M16 Vietnam variant, oh yeah with Colt mustang logo on the lower receiver) is very limited but I still managed to fare better on marksmanship and rifle handling than those base security, whom have to train more on stuff like those than we did.
Anyway, what M16S1 has is what you'd find on the M16A1 anyway.
That reminds me: back in my days the PAB postings was considered the best because of the accommodations and other creature comforts, Changi and TAB were the dreaded because the facilities were old...
And IIRC, in China those civilian-military airfields (many airports in China are dual-prupose) has the problem not just shared runway but also their ATC isn't that good.
As to how much the military operations interfere Changi's civilian operations, it'd be largely up to the placement of the 4th airstrip (if to operate those big planes originally stationed in PAB, it has to be long and wide) and how they segregate civilian-military air traffic; my money is that the Changi's air traffic will get hampered by some degree during major exercises, but given day-to-day patrols are handled by F-16s from TAB things shouldn't be that bad.
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