perhaps we need to realise that life in todays RAF is somewhat different to the one anyone expected pre 9/11 we are away a lot more, to places where people shoot at us! Also public opinion hasn`t exactly been strong regarding our latest endeavours. Obviously their is still a need to encourage recruitment, and the UAS is the perfect way to do that. Of course their will be some "wasters" but we will also be able to continue the tradition of employing people of a very high calibre through this system. The fun police are trying their best to take take take from the Air force, it is on subjects like this that we have to stand up to them! Apart from anything else surely a UAS is a good place to go and be an instructor after being messed around on the front line for 6 yrs or so - there is only so much of the desert that anyone can take!