LB
get her to memorise this confession:-
"Yesterday, I could not spell Rock Ape. now I are one!"
Seriously, I deployed as a Stn Int Officer with a Laarbruch regiment to Banja Luqa, Bosnia, in 1996. My eyes were opened to the professionalism, dedication and effectiveness of the Cpls conducting the patrols, which was second to none. Indeed, it would have put a lot of other senior ranks/officers in other trades and branches to shame. It is unfortunate that most RAF people's experience of the Regt is at the annual gas and gun course, where the lecturers, usually Cpls, are constrained by having to adhere to the lecture packs with absolutely no deviation allowed. On Ops and outside the classroom, the Regt are the finest body of people to trust your life to in the defence of airfields. Encourage your grand-daughter to the best of your ability; she will not regret a moment, and maybe her skills would be better employed, as a graduate, in the Officer Corps.