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Trust me when I say I am chilled. My pulse rarely quickens.
I am not in the habit of googling peoples usernames before I reply to them I’m afraid. Besides, even if I did, who is to say that we were talking to the real John le Brun? It could easily have been a Lewis Page type character on a wind up mission or a school kid looking for someone to do his homework.
I stand by my initial response.
The question of an independent RAF as asked is the oldest wind up in the book from every RN (especially FAA) and Army guy I know.
I saw nothing in the original post that convinced me that it was a genuine query. Maybe I’ve become overly cynical in my old age!
If John wants my honest opinion then here it is. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
It would be easy to say “if it flies, it’s Air Force. If it floats, it’s Navy. If it runs, drives or digs a hole it’s Army”. But that would ignore the bespoke requirements that exist in each service.
I don’t understand why people always pick on the RAF as the one service that could be subsumed into another. Is it simply because we’re the youngest?!
BV