Yes Gorilla. that's correct.
But surely there's a requirement for them to be physically capable and operationally competent of doing their job and deploying where necessary.
If they can't meet the standard, they should be out too. No questions. Or is this like the recent first class travel scandal and their airships have a valid reason for not bothering to meet the requirements that the rest of us must?
With the way things are going towards an expeditionary air force, with operators going away and contractors hiding at home, if the senior officers can't meet the deployment standards they should be put on probabtion and then if there is still no improvement discharged for failing to meet the standards required to perform their job. For God's sake, it ain't difficult, but watch em waddle up and down the gym faced with 'retiring' on a lower pension or not getting that next stripe!
Last edited by CatpainCaveman; 24th Jun 2004 at 22:10.