Ok so I will agree that the C-17 sounds like a good asset for the ADF and it would be very handy for deploying assets around Australia and the Pacific. My ignorance of things military has been discovered.
I'm just jealous that you guys get training on new equipment.
Frozo, thanks for broadening my horizons on things literary. I had never even heard of the word "deontalogical" let alone know what it meant.
For those as ignorant as I it means "Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights.
Life in Qantas is neither ethical nor theoritical and as such your deontological views do not apply to us.