Originally Posted by
pasta
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.
OK, but on balance, I would still give it -10 on the diplomatic front ( imagine if there were an incident and the Russians requote his words about young, inexperienced pilots ) and +1 on the recruitment side;