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To: Moltke

>>She’s been a Royal Navy engineer since age 17? Quite an achievement!

Later on, the story calls her a “helicopter technician”. In Europe, engineer means more than the contemporary American definition.


5 posted on 03/09/2013 12:26:01 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92
She’s been a Royal Navy engineer since age 17? Quite an achievement!

Later on, the story calls her a “helicopter technician”. In Europe, engineer means more than the contemporary American definition.

In the US, Army engineers are merely the equivalent of construction workers. One can be trained by the Army in four months right out of high school. Why would it be any different in Britain?

77 posted on 03/09/2013 9:50:11 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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