Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Would yesterday’s dinosaurs cope with today’s modern technology? Not a chance.
Don’t you just love unsubstantiated and, frankly, prejudicial statements?!
BV
In 1996 I attended a refresher course at Portsmouth Uni. 24 of us, Service and civilian. The head tutor invited everyone to offer one example of how MoD could be improved.
A naval architect: ‘Anyone who is not current in their chosen specialism should be sacked’.
A cracker, and the tutor went round everyone. An RN Commander whom I knew of old said ‘I’m a Sea King pilot, but I no longer fly. That doesn’t make me useless to the Merlin project team’. And so on.
Last up, a Brigadier, Director of Special Projects (and far more impressively, a former CO of the Black Watch RHR). ‘I’m just a grunt infantryman, trained to kill. And I’m current’.
Brilliant.