So come on Mike, give us a clue...
After such excellent fishing, are you serving as you sometimes suggest -
eg quote "So, how do we go about getting Joe public on our side once again..."
or are you a journo/ sad-sideliner ?
eg quote "You lot should do the job you are trained to do and stop trying to hoodwink the public by lame excuses "
I have a good idea myself as it has to have been a few yrs since I saw anyone in the RAF refer to a squadron as "sqdn" or the RAF as "AF".
As for your bleat about the
PR machine.
"And, so what does the great
PR machine do (whilst bleating that the AF is so short of money we are forcing to make redundancies) we send a squadron on a skiing holiday....Great" - I think you'll find the
PR machine had very little indeed to do with the decision to send the boys.
We don't really care, as those of us who have 'been there and done it' know how on dets like that we usually work hard/play hard and reap the benefits when we go on ops as a well trained cohesive unit.
But civvie or not, since you are so knowledgeable about the workings of the sqn "In fact seeing as the Sqdn is just around the corner from me I know exactly what they were doing..." we really look forward to hearing your further words of wisdom!