Post by Amyas Raeburn on Aug 20, 2014 22:11:54 GMT
Entry 1:
Contracts come and contracts go. Some are easy and some not so. Often times, I do not understand a majority of what the contracts entail, not because of the content matter of the contract as they rarely are anything extravagant and out of the ordinary. Instead, what confounds me is the reasoning behind the contract. While yes, I am a pilot trained in the forms of aerial and underwater combat, I simply do not understand many of the reasons why people choose to hire others to fight and kill one another.
My time with the New Melbourne Defense Force was spent mostly on patrols around the shipping lanes that leave New Melbourne. On occasion, the NMDF and the NSDF cooperate in join operations, but both cities may as well be partnered in almost everything else. With only a few hundred kilometers separating the two as the crow flies, there is not much that the two do not share. Granted, the people and the culture are different, but that can be said about anywhere.
Still… Even my combat time with the NMDF saw me fighting against pirates that were willing to capture, abuse, kill, and extort people that they captured on the high seas. My charge was their protection. Being launched out of the tube into the ocean from the NMS Lir to respond to pirate invasions became a normality for the many pilots of that carrier. It was what I enjoyed, launching into the supercavitation bubble around the carrier to spear my way through the water.
But to take off from an airfield hundreds of kilometers inland to go after some private yacht in the middle of the South Pacific? At times I wonder why I became a mercenary, but then I remember the opportunities that the navy often denied me that I can take up on my own.
Contracts come and contracts go. Some are easy and some not so. Often times, I do not understand a majority of what the contracts entail, not because of the content matter of the contract as they rarely are anything extravagant and out of the ordinary. Instead, what confounds me is the reasoning behind the contract. While yes, I am a pilot trained in the forms of aerial and underwater combat, I simply do not understand many of the reasons why people choose to hire others to fight and kill one another.
My time with the New Melbourne Defense Force was spent mostly on patrols around the shipping lanes that leave New Melbourne. On occasion, the NMDF and the NSDF cooperate in join operations, but both cities may as well be partnered in almost everything else. With only a few hundred kilometers separating the two as the crow flies, there is not much that the two do not share. Granted, the people and the culture are different, but that can be said about anywhere.
Still… Even my combat time with the NMDF saw me fighting against pirates that were willing to capture, abuse, kill, and extort people that they captured on the high seas. My charge was their protection. Being launched out of the tube into the ocean from the NMS Lir to respond to pirate invasions became a normality for the many pilots of that carrier. It was what I enjoyed, launching into the supercavitation bubble around the carrier to spear my way through the water.
But to take off from an airfield hundreds of kilometers inland to go after some private yacht in the middle of the South Pacific? At times I wonder why I became a mercenary, but then I remember the opportunities that the navy often denied me that I can take up on my own.