Army bosses lavish £600,000 on servants

[greycoat]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=457769&in_page_id=1770

OK it's the Daily Mail and not strictly mil aircrew, but how do their counterparts in the RAF and RN fare?

[Pontius Navigator]

But no club class travel and staying in messes not hotels, at least CGS and CNS have signed up to this but CAS?

[Two's in]

Usual "Politics of Envy" from Dacre's rag. At least with Sun readers you expect to be dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool, the Mail on the other hand just tries to appeal to the BNP and Oswald Mosley element of Middle Class Britain - or the Mail's idea of what Middle Class Britain should be.
When I'm CGS, I have no intention of mowing the lawn before I commit another Battalion of troops to some pointless Political farrago on behalf of my best Oil dependent chums, nor do I expect to knock up the egg banjos when the Defence Council sits. And do you think the SNCO House manager would prefer to be scheduling carpet and curtain cleaning around garden parties, or treating his gunner for a sucking chest wound during a Basra firefight? Tricky one.
Oh, nearly forgot to say typical neanderthal Journo trash from the Mail and Paul Dacre.

[Jimlad1]

These "facts" were uncovered by a New Liarbour MP (Keevan Jones) who claimed £146,000 public money in expenses last year alone. He then voted to exempt MP's from the FOI act - says it all really doesnt it.

[PPRuNeUser0211]

Well harry staish frequently entertains and has the mess stewards over to help out so that's 100k straight of the bat as they're clearly his personal slaves...

Journos....

[The Scottish Fg Off]

Classic guff from the self proclaimed "Forces Friendly" "Standing up for the Squaddie" media. It always amazes me that when it comes to any story about the way a Senior Officer, aka "Top Brass", eat, travel or just plain live, is reported that they miss the point spectacularly.
Some of our beloved leaders are maybe more interested in protecting their pensions than putting the New Labour conspiracy back in its box, but they are still woefully paid in comparison to their contemporarys' in industry. Are the newspapers filling pages with non-stories or do they seriously expect CDS CAS CGS and the like to bull their own shoes?

[Mr C Hinecap]

That 'article' used the word 'if' an awful lot. Slow news day leads to pitiful speculation and stretching a 'story' out to fill.

[samuraimatt]

They only used it once as far as I can see. I guess it filled out the Article though.

[OCCWMF]

Twice in the article, once in a letter.:8

Hat, coat, leave.

[Green Flash]

(sigh)

It's in the papers, it must be true ....

Cynique, moi?