Welcome Ray
So, we are crap yet it took you 16 years to summon up the courage to leave. How very odd. Passed over for promotion perhaps?
True though, in the 80's it was a novelty to find anyone on the course who was a direct entrant (it was my 3rd branch!).
However, some of us soldiered on and we thinned out the Navs with bandy legs and similar to move onto better things.
Where were you in 87? trying to place you.