At work Mansour and
I decided to do an investigation of our American contractor. There was no
particular reason for our investigation and the contractor welcomed and
cooperated with us but we felt it would be a useful thing to do. As it happens
it was, we employed the same strategy as we had at Khamis Mansour talked to the
Saudi trainees and I talked to the trainer and their management. We found that
there had been a mix up and the contractor was under staffed as laid out in
their contract. Naturally up to this point no one had noticed at least from the
RSAF side they hadn’t. It was raised up to the Head Quarters and put right.
Mansour and I got a lot of kudos out of it that was to do neither of us any
good in the end.
Shortly after our
report had gone in Mansour was moved to the office of the Base Commander which
broke up our team at work though we continued our socializing particularly as
Fateeha and Syb had become close friends. At the same time our boss was
transferred to Riyadh, so we had a new one. A young dynamic captain who drove a
BMC Mini and was by Saudi standards very progressive, he had just returned from
the States and was fired up with what he had seen over there. He encouraged me
to help him in the impossible task of improving the training of the Saudi
trainees with my new colleague and workmate.
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