Originally Posted by
Finningley Boy
Wasn't there some scuttlebutt about Wigston not wanting to risk the RAF Regiment by deploying them in harms way to secure Kabul Airport during the exodus? It instead being handed to the Army?
FB
I think the broader point was that no one in PJHQ factored the RAF Regiment into the plan; a plan which was seen by plenty in the RAF.
the Regiment was just overlooked, in a scenario that should’ve been their reason d’etre.
which was compounded how they, and a lot of non-flying personnel from the RAF, we’re treated when they returned from the Op. definitely “one rule for the winged master race, one rule for the blunties “….