Crab,
"...shot ourselves in the foot by not managing the PR properly ..."
You light blue chaps just haven't sorted this
PR and Military Ethos issue have you. Just as well he wasn't awarded the AFC for his Boscastle heroics. Was it really 50 people he winched up, or was that just what he signed off in the auth sheets.
TC,
"Can somebody tell me what he did wrong...can't see it for the life of me?"
You can't see it ? He lied in his authorisation sheets by stating that he conducted IF training when he didn't, and you can't see it.