yawn....
The point is Mike you don't know they were on a skiing holiday, I take your point that lots of numptys will believe what the papers write, but at the end of the day there are a lot better qualified people than I would suggest you who can vouch for what they were doing and why.
Theres a whole raft of reasons that location could have been chosen, forthcoming deployment for a start.
Some of the best training, if not the best training, is available at the Red Flag ranges near you know where. Are you suggesting we don't train there because its to nice a place for the RAF to be seen in.
Maybe the Mirror would be better sending its Journalists (loose term I know) following the RAF to the more ****ty locations it has to go, and get a real take on what happens, rather than trying to sniff a story out of **** all squared.