Originally Posted by
orca
I remember being in a debrief at a CQWI when a certain Sqn commander announced that as a result of his teams’ efforts that very day...some of which had been CQWI related, that the Typhoon would henceforth be the FGR4...the news was delivered very much in the way one might announce the end to world hunger. I think everyone in the hangar thought something along the lines of: ‘Oh’ or possibly ‘Does anyone have the ‘Irrelevant Button’ to hand?’
That was right up there with the time when a VSO stood in front of the entire assembled CQWI Mass Debrief, and proceeded to go bat **** crazy on the Harrier Force. He seemed a little miffed that the Harrier mates weren't 'conceptually' prepared to crash their jets into 'technicals' containing High Value Individuals in Afghan. IIRC, the words were something along the lines 'The F3 mates are prepared to crash their jets into an Airliner on QRA, so why do the Harrier mates think they are any better?'.
I do seem to recall the F3 mates looking furtively at each other, obviously thinking 'WTF did we sign up to that........?'