DK338
society has changed, the RAF must too
Yes, society has changed, but for the better? Surely now more than ever our youth need organisations which can inspire them, and offer them some boundaries of decent behaviour rather than ASBOs after the event. Hence the ACO offers something to the community at large as well as an opportunity to fire the imagination of potential recruits. Also, the UAS system provides an experience to those who do not choose the military as a career which will stay with them in the future; some of them will become influential; others may even become MPs. How many of our current parliamentary representatives have any idea at all about the military? Who is going to lobby support for the defence budget? You cannot put a price on these things, and so they are difficult to justify in a budget orientated world. I appreciate the other imperatives, but I doubt that you would see more money in these areas, just cuts.
It's been said in this thread before, "the cost of everything, and the value of nothing".