stupido
You say: And as for Uni, it is the life experience, as much as the educational that is important. The 18-year-old DE boys and girls have a lot to learn, which the military isn't necessarily best suited to teach.
I have a moment or 2 on my hands for a little light reading; perhaps you would care to publish a list of features in this 'life experience' thing that you feel that the RAF needs so much. Bear in mind that many of us here will have either been to uni or put kids through uni, or we might even have done both. Please exclude such desirable qualities as learning how to:
a. Sleep for 18 hours a day.
b. Turn a perfectly pleasant terraced house into a stinking !!!!!hole within moments of moving in.
c. Steal your colleagues' food because you've run out of money again.
d. Same re booze.
e. Nick your colleagues' CDs and not return them until they are scratched to b*ggery.
f. Refuse to pay your share of the phone bill 'cos I was only on the phone for 2 minutes last month'.
g. Fail to establish a sensible balance between work and play.
h. Have 6 months of holidays per annum and still hand in your projects late.
i. Take drugs.
j. Cram a 12 month course on psychcr*p into a full 3 years.
k. Expect to be offered a highly-paid job immediately on leaving uni as you now have a degree.
I'm ready so start compiling.