Originally Posted by
NutLoose
As above re held account.
A limitation put on so called incidents of say 10 years to stop the likes of the NI troubles court cases.
A rebuilding of the Navy and a realisation across the board that no matter how capable one new model frigate is over three or four of the previous model frigates, that capability means squat if you need to be in two places at once, something the Gulf is showing to be true, insufficient vessels to cover the simplest of escort tasks.
RAF airshows, show the public what they are getting for their money, not just the three or four usually types, better for recruiting, better helping people understand where there money goes. Televise it again.
Bring all services back in house and military positions and not contracted as said, you may save some money having a civilian issuing blankets, but at the end of the day that civilian cannot carry arms so are combat ineffective.
Good for Nutty - who appears to be the only person so far to have read and answered the exam question as initially posed! - and I fully agree both with the spirit of his third paragraph in particular, and his separate thread on the subject, the good sense of which is only too well highlighted by recent events in the Gulf. Whilst our frigates have come a long way since Tribal Class frigates were allegedly deployed there on the basis that governments on either side of the Gulf were impressed by the fact that they had two funnels, rather than one, the Iranians are clearly no longer in any doubt about our lack of readily available assets.
On a personal note, my best wishes to Whenurhappy on returning to the fold.
Jack