TC. .Can't see why you were so angry with OTS. Your views don't seem far apart. It's pointless letting our mil loyalties cloud the issues.
Let's be blunt, it takes a certain type to want to go straight from the mil to the CAA. . .They're suspect in my book, whatever their mil backgrounds. . .Even those forced into it seem to change once they've joined "the Authority.". .You can't blame it all on 'the system' - people in the system are responsible for the attitude, and it may even attract people who like that attitude.