Turkmenistan Where On Earth Is That?

 A story about an ex-British  soldier, living and working in a former Soviet State. Highlighting the  circumstances that led to two significantly different cultures, former  adversaries from the Cold War, sharing a cockpit and getting to know  each other as a result of essential aircraft modernisation. However, one  of them had grown up with, studied, and witnessed the technological and  operational developments in helicopter aviation over the previous 35  years. The other, plucked from their weary 1960s aircraft, and dropped  into the most modern of 21st Century helicopters.
​Both cultures sharing the cockpit had a lot to learn. 

 Almost unknown in the West,  almost unheard of, a peaceful, low profile country, yet in 2025  Turkmenistan was placed on the US list of countries on which travel  restrictions have been imposed. I suspect many will ask the same  question as I did, when I was sent there for one year.​