Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
"Ahead of a visit to the base, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston said some of the British pilots were in their early 20s and "just out of training". They now face having to make critical judgments in the skies to avoid a potentially catastrophic confrontation with Russia."
It astonishes me that he underlines their youth and lack of experience: not what I would expect him to do in such a media-heavy and diplomatically tense environment. That's a fail for the ACM from me.
An alternate interpretation could be "Join the RAF, and within a few years it could be you doing stuff like this."
Never hurts to keep the recruitment spin going if you want the best candidates to apply.