Operational Honours List
At a recent seminar, I met one of the recipients of the DSO, who is on the same honours list as the VC chappie. He is an International Relations student at Cambridge at the moment and a fine party animal. He has a good turn of phrase and since the annoucement of the award, academics and fellow students have been very quick to praise him. A foreign student who is critical of US and UK involvment in Iraq (I am, but generally keep it to myself) was roundly condemned for a vicious diatribe against the military that he launched on the cam.ac system.
Observers, and ppruners in particular, still view universities as a hotbed of anti-military attitudes. In my exposure here, and at other academic institutions, I have found it to be a rare opinion indeed.
CC