Is it just me, or is anyone else appalled at the amount of infighting and bitching going on between the services in this thread?
For fux-sake guys, this is about flight safety matters that have had plenty of time to be put right. If money can be found for all the niff-naff and triv (new coats, new rucksacks, new history books, etc!) why is it not available for making peoples lives a little better when away from home in a hostile environment?
I DO enjoy a little inter-service banter when it suites, but please guys, pick the appropriate threads on which to do it. Yes, I do feel for the green types for the conditions they often have to endure and the dark-blues for being stuck in a tin can surrounded by H2O, but I have the sense to say that if they have a problem that could be rectified and hasn't then I would support their efforts to get it put right, not accuse them of being whinging to$$ers!
Would you live in a shed when you could easily have a house? Would you drive a French car when you could easily have a real one? Why should we STILL be living in the conditions in which we do in Iraq when we have been there long enough now to have had it sorted?
Now grow up and have a sensible discussion
MadMark!!!
