Of course we should support anyone who wants to participate in sport at any level. It's fairly rare to see certain sectors of the RAf doing any kind of sport (no names no PD etc - but they tend to sit in the front of the flying things) - and then they wonder what will happen if they are plucked from their comfy drivers seat and deposited in the middle of a battle field - bit late to go on a fitness drive to make the dash to safety a bit easier.
Given the frequent winges about how tedious day-to-day life is I would have thought that the opportunity for a bit of legitimate skiving would be quite appealing. Obviously the couch-potato lobby is holding sway - led by those who drive from the 400 yds from the patch/mess on a daily basis.........time to end rant