Originally Posted by
Red Line Entry
And of course, all of you lot wrote to the papers while you were serving to complain about cuts... Oh hang on, you didn’t.
Yes we did. I, and many other JOs, used to write to the papers with our names and addresses supplied. Hang the consequences. Funny though, none of our letters were ever published or even acknowledged, and we were not even dobbed in to the rozzers/snowdrops for Sedition!
Originally Posted by
Red Line Entry
Maybe that was because as a serving officer/airman/soldier you had a duty to support the elected representatives of the people, regardless of whether you agreed with them or not.
I have just checked and re-checked my scroll, and yep, it mentions the Queen and Air Officers set over me, but nothing about elected representatives/snake-oil salesmen (delete as required).
