totalwar,
A friend of mine works for the airlines (ex RN) and he mentioned the difference between the airlines and the military is that in the Airlines when there is an incident the company are happy to find out WHAT happened and leave it at that.
Which company does he work for?
Most simply fire you, pretty well on the spot.
Razordome, was your old boss's ditching in OS 1985?
If it was, I nearly joined him in the oggin on the same exercise. HDS flight on RFA Fort Austin. Wessex five with no navaids except DR plotting by the crewman. RFA not fitted with any kind of data link, so invisible to rest of group, and not sticking to the brief.
If the refuellers on Invincible had seen my 'throat cut' action, and not put a few hundred too many pounds on, I'd have been swimming too.
Best laugh, when we'd eventually found her, with a reported endurance of minus 2 minutes, she asked for a radar approach for training.