{"id":9562,"date":"2026-05-12T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:56:50","slug":"called-it-a-jump-and-an-interesting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/called-it-a-jump-and-an-interesting-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Called It, A Jump and an Interesting Point."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
Guess I called it again.<\/strong>
As commented on by Stephan, seems they dropped some Para-Rescue folks and gear into (onto?) Tristan da Cunha to treat infected locals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now
A couple of things.
ONE: According to reports HERE<\/a> “A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 \u200cAir Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 km (4,218 miles) from RAF Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire to Ascension Island then another 3,000 km due south to Tristan \u200bda Cunha” (which we now know as “Plague Island”<\/p>\n\n\n

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I just had to…
Now… OK… this whole show was put on for supposedly ONE person. <\/strong><\/em>Let’s look at the potential cost shall we?

Now, according to the Goolag A.I. the following can be gathered for the cost of fuel, per mile<\/strong><\/em> for the plane that these guys jumped:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$20 to $35 per mile averaged<\/strong> for an A400M (military variant)
An A400M being:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Airbus ripoff of the US C-130 apparently
Who knew?
So anyways
Approximate cost, per my calculations is roughly a quarter of a MILLION US Dollars.<\/strong> The calculations being and average<\/strong> between $20USD and $35USD ($27.50) per air-mile. The multiply the distance of 4218 miles times two (return leg donchaknow?) and it’s quite a bit of a costly sum.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now MY curiosity on this?
Well…. let’s just say that His Majesty’s DotGov as of late has not shown that much interest in the well being of His Subjects.<\/em>

For examples? Look at “Rape Gangs”, “Bad takeout\/Botulism”, “Immigrant Crime” and the like….

I personally have trouble that Two-Tier Keir would spend ANY amount of precious $$$ to take care of ONE individual who’s been hit with the Hanta…

I mean it’s the middle of fucking nowhere.<\/strong>
I mean how “Middle of Nowhere”?
Try this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please note the label “Edinburgh of the Seas” because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THAT place right there?<\/strong>

There’s a WHOOOOOLE LOT OF NUTHIN’ going on…
Bumfuck Egypt has a positively dazzling<\/em><\/strong> nightlife I understand.

So then…

Why<\/strong> would they air-drop a squad of their most highly trained Para-Rescue guys into an Area of Operations, with two “Military Clinicians” (probably jump qualified Docs if I had to guess)… and also my guess is jump-rated Doctors (or Nurses for that matter) are pretty fucking rare<\/strong> in the British Army these days, as well…

I mean FFS the British Army’d probably have trouble taking on the United States Boy Scouts at this point, b\/c as of January 2026, the UK Armed Forces had approximately 136,960 regular personnel. Total strength, including Gurkhas, is roughly 141,150, supported by approximately 32,030 volunteer reserves.

Whereas the Boy Scouts gain an average of 50K new Eagle Scouts each year, who’re all IMO, better trained than the average Brit. Between the majority of them growing up shooting (an anathema to the hardcore anti-firearm Brits) and then learning real survival skills and such? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah…

Boy Scouts for the win IMO

So more than likely, they jumped six<\/span><\/strong> of their best trained Para-Rescue guys along with probably two of maybe 100+\/- available <\/em>jump qualified Doctors\/Nurses over an Island, on what was maybe<\/em> a one-way trip over a Island in literally the middle of fuicking nowhere<\/strong> in what was reportedly High Winds?

All for one fucking guy?

Nope
Not buying it.

From a purely financial perspective, it’d be (for me at least) a “wall the fucker up in a room with food, water and a port-o-shitter, with a cell phone and charger, and wait the prerequisite timeframe for him to either recover, or expire, and then depending on the circumstances, either let him out, or burn the whole fucking building to the ground, just to be sure.

That

OR<\/span><\/strong>……..

There’s a lot more going on there than meets the eye.<\/strong>

That’s MY call

I will say that when I got word on this, that when I went to check “The Map” webpage on YouTube, well… the video that I showed the pics and screenshots of the Plaque Boat at the Island?
Yeah…
It’s fucking gone<\/span><\/strong> baby.

To the point if you go to my post where I embedded it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hmmn
As I like to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the Brits would say “Innit???”

So I’m not sure.
It reeks.
Of THAT there is no question…

I report, you decide.
Thoughts, Comments and Inquiries?

And as an FYI, I caught a 7 Day Ban on X for “Badthink” for commenting on a poast about the Brits and the City of London ‘running the show’ in the background apparently… someone laid an outline around the City of London, so I just had<\/strong> to photoshop MY thoughts on it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently, that’s “threatening violence” or some shit…

Myself? I think I did a great job!

Go figure…
So
Let me Know
More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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