View Full Version : Blunt words rattle Air Chiefs
Tiltthrust
1st Aug 2011, 11:52
The Independent on Sunday reported that James Blunt, the award-winning singer and a former soldier, has run into trouble with military top brass after he complained about "gross incompetence" in the Royal Air Force. RAF chiefs have protested that they were not "helping to lose the war" in Afghanistan, after Blunt criticised the transport delays that forced the cancellation of his "morale-boosting" trip to entertain British troops in the country.
Delay on the trooper? Surely not!
Fortissimo
1st Aug 2011, 13:18
This is very old news - I think this all happened pre-Christmas. Looks as if someone is trying to stir things up again...
I would have thought that the Non arrival of James Blunt would be more of a morale booster than him turning up.
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Jabba_TG12
1st Aug 2011, 14:04
Another silly season story, tbh.
But, this is not a particular branch that the airships have handled well, is it, over the years. You reap what you sow. Or rather the troops reap what the airships sow, more to the point.
Wycombe
1st Aug 2011, 14:15
James Blunt - a living piece of cockney rhyming slang :ok:
November4
1st Aug 2011, 14:39
Heavily discussed at the time and lots of RAF bashing over servicibility and aircraft availabilty until it was found out that he and Katherine Jenkins were on a charter aircraft.
Found it...... (http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/437477-vc10-duty-hours.html)
1.3VStall
1st Aug 2011, 16:28
I'd pay a fortune to get delayed with Katherine Jenkins............!
Halton Brat
1st Aug 2011, 16:44
I will not tolerate anybody salivating over Katherine Jenkins.......apart from myself.........
HB
1.3VStall
1st Aug 2011, 18:40
HB,
I never contemplated salivating over her. However, having sat in row 3 for her concert at the MEN Arena back in March I do confess to dribbling!
jindabyne
1st Aug 2011, 19:21
Oh dear - and this is Mil Aircrew
BBadanov
1st Aug 2011, 20:49
Yes, we dribble all the time, but don't talk about it. ;)
Really annoyed
1st Aug 2011, 21:09
having sat in row 3 for her concert at the MEN Arena back in March I do confess to dribbling!
You were probably having a stroke. F.A.S.T.
jindabyne
1st Aug 2011, 21:16
BBad
Well do you know that I've seen you do so on more than one occasion ---- and did the not-knighted David once witness thus??
TheWizard
1st Aug 2011, 21:19
and you are admitting it in public??:ooh:
jindabyne
1st Aug 2011, 21:40
And along came the nice lady with the white coat ---