Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
Having been made aware of this thread I have a thought or two about RAF pilots myself.
If the juniors, particularly pilots that is, are as good as they think they are, why is it that so very, very, few of them get promoted to a rank above F/L?
Is it because they reach their ceiling of competence at that low rank?
Thus not as good as they thought they were.
The 'superior' attitude of many of them who come across to Commercial flying is enough to make one puke, they muscle in thinking they are in command and contol. When put in their place by wiser, professional aviators they take umbrage.
Many then go off to yet another job in a fit of pique thinking the world owes them a living.
It could be the same for personnel officers, give them a uniform and rank will make them think they are high flying businessmen, when in the real world of office work they might qualify to do the photo copying.
Catering officers who cannot possibly cook a decent breakfast.
Engineering officers who do not know one end of a spanner from the other.
Supply officers having a rather fancy title for what is no more than being a stock controller.
The Armed Forces still attracts people who would have felt at home in 1905, born to 'command', days of Empire and the map being pink. They think people who actually 'work' with their hands are some inferior being who cannot possibly be capable of doing anything worthwhile without supervision. In their eyes everybody else is low life and thick.
From what I have seen, the non commissioned people in the Forces do a grand job, whether they be cooks, leckies, storemen, plods, rocks, musicians, clerks, mechanics, drivers, etc.
Lions led by donkeys phrase easily comes to mind.