jeez, people can be a bit sensitive on here! surely it wouldnt be too hard to keep the military forum for general sort of all access stuff but also have a closed forum. im sure all the BA guys enjoy having the open forums but equally quite like being able to discuss things without every man and his dog reading. sometimes it would be nice to not have to worry so much about journos, not talking about classified stuff but just talking without worry of your comments so easily ending up being taken the wrong way by people out of the loop. anyway, we all have id numbers etc so shouldnt be too hard to restrict to active military, just like the BA/Virgin forums manage to do.