Those of us who remember, fondly or not , their own service careers should remember that it appears that the UK armed forces have changed beyond recognition since ‘our day’.
I suppose it all goes back to ‘Options for Change’ but when I went back to RAFC Cranwell, just before COVID struck, I found it a ghostly place full of empty corridors with barely a uniform in sight. A trip to Brize Norton gave a similar impression - a busier place but now heavily civilianised.
I sincerely hope that the front line ethos has not changed but rather like the long list of well beloved bases which have long disappeared, I suspect the insidious effect of political correctness has altered the Royal Air Force beyond both recognition and redemption.