Morning chaps,
As one who is fairly new to the melting pot, but has grown up around the services, I have watched the steady decline in not only the size and shape of the Force, but the spirit and morale of those within. And things are getting bleaker and bleaker.
There is, as we all know, a mindset in the UK armed forces of making do, ie getting the job done reasonably well with the consistently sh!!ty hand we've been dealt by our lords and masters.
Our success has been our undoing. This has come up in threads past, but this seems like the best place to pop it in again.
THE ARMED FORCES WILL ONLY SURVIVE IF WE FAIL.
We are coming to the breaking point, the point in the graph where the "product" (God, I hate calling it that), can no longer be sustained by the meagre funding.
Actually being at home to mister cock-up on a grand scale might jog the purse-string holders into taking politically risky decisions that will benifit everyone in the long run, and not just get them re-elected because they've cut taxes or given a few more million asylum seekers council houses.
Rant 1 over. 2 may follow shortly with ideas of how to not be at home to mister cockup.