It strikes me, that this has been a
PR disaster, OK the question of who drove the MOD vehicle and why, is on the face of it interesting. How much has been invested in a career for on the face of it, it all to be poured down the drain because of use of a vehicle.
More on the
PR disaster, is why was a Merlin detached to transport a ship's captain from his ship to dry land, at a cost of what, when as I understand in the Queen Elizabeth has a number of ship's boats, the captain could be piped off the ship and instructed to drive the offending vehicle to an appropriate location to return it, saves a lot of money and embarrassment.