|
|
Post by aimway921 on Aug 6, 2022 2:08:42 GMT -5
The island of Honshyn on the Firukenta chain was small, practically a barren rock. Due to it's size, it had no settlements. This made it perfect for a military base away from prying eyes. And this was where Ashinara's sole airfield was built, as well as installations constructed to house the new vehicles purchased from Ulster Gaelia. Now, Gaelic specialists have arrived to train the Ashinaran soldiers to use these machines.
The First Air Squadron and First Armored Brigade were formed from soldiers with great mechanical aptitude, but other critical military skills such as leadership, ability to improvise and adapt, and perhaps most importantly, had a grasp on recognizing tactical changes in combat situations, it's no wonder that the soldiers handpicked for this new unit were all between Sergeant and Lieutenant in rank.
On the first day of training, they have already divided themselves up by vehicles, and awaited for the instructors to begin their work.
|
|
|
|
Post by Greywall on Aug 6, 2022 12:53:24 GMT -5
The instructors from Ulster-Gaelia accepted their post in Ashinara but were still getting used to the foreign country, the tankette instructor Jon Halsey was a truck driver five years ago before joining the Royal Army and becoming one of its leading operators. Rinna McVay was an aerial squadron commander of the 908th taking this job in hopes of early retirement, both of them broke into their separate groups.
Halsey started out going over the tankette controls, functions, where to refuel it, where repairs would need to be made, how to reload the main gun. He didn't speak a word of Ashinarian so he would be pretty much dependent on a translator to relay everything to his class.
McVay wanted her pilots sitting in their aircraft and would lean in over them personally to show how to operate the aircraft, she took a much more personal approach wanting each Ashinara pilot to understand fully how to fly the Siskin, "It's an easy fighter to operate, it was purposefully designed in that regard so anyone can fly it." Despite being in her mid 30's McVay had never really left the main islands, she spent her entire career in the new RAF and now wanted this opportunity to retire and start her life. Seeing and working with the Ashinara was a new experience she didn't realize filled her with a new resolve and love for teaching.
After they both went over the basics, they would move on in a few weeks to discuss proper tactics in using recon planes and tankettes before doing practice runs.
|
|
|
|
Post by aimway921 on Aug 6, 2022 17:23:32 GMT -5
Following Halsey's guidelines, the overseeing officer has assigned crew roles for the tankette trainees, those who best know how to work with heavy industrial machinery being assigned driver roles. One of the recruits seemed to be pushing the Vole he's been assigned to it's limit, stalling it out a couple times but otherwise driving it more nimbly than all the other drivers. The gunners meanwhile had some getting used to not being able to just turn the machine guns where they want to aim them, and needing to rotate the whole turret to do so.
Senior Sargeant (or Chotovy, in Ashinaran) Polina Emarska received a ginormous round of applause from her comrades as she just entered history as the first Ashinaran to successfully take off and land an aircraft. A young nobleman, Marchek te Rostovski soon followed suit as the second Ashinaran to ever do the same. One by one, the student pilots felt what it's like to fly through the air, and as soon as they did, they fell in love with the machines given to them, and could not wait to learn more about the art of flying.
|
|
