Originally Posted by
VinRouge
No, it’s not that we don’t subscribe to being an officer. It’s the suggestion that being an officer comes above all else. It doesn’t. My legal responsibility as an Aircraft Commander and not a senior officers lackey comes above all else.
If you are an example of a junior Officer of recent years, I am glad to have left when I did. You really do not understand what your Commission conferred. You have your idea of duty completely inverted - you should have been an inspiration to those junior to you. Aircraft Commander - this term belongs firmly in BA-speak ‘to fly, to serve’. Laughable. You obviously live in a different world to the very many outstanding serving and ex-RAF officers I have had the pleasure of knowing, leading and flying with.