Thomas coupling.
".... but no doubt someone will take it - monkeys and peanuts!"
You do yourself no favours by calling some of your colleagues in the industry monkeys!!
I have been fortunate to have flown with quite a few guys in the emergency services industry in the UK over the last 5 years or so, and irrespective of who actually pays their wages, I have found them to be sustantially better qualified and professionally committed than the label you give them suggests.