And maybe that will be the problem.
A total failure to promote air support. And a failure to stand together, period. There are groups where members of air support meet because of a common cause or because of a common aircraft type but they are nothing more than secret societies as far as self promotion is concerned.
So scared of getting a positive story in the sort of papers the bean counters and the public might read that as often as not the first bit of publicity to get through the ever present guard is either a negative one or inaccurate.
And it is not just air support. A long standing acceptance [if you can call it that] of a creeping civilianisation across the board. Walking backwards and not a peep from any quarter.
Be assured trained/sworn police are NOT a breed apart as some try to suggest so stopping creeping civilianisation will actually take some positive action to hold the 'inevitable' back.
You saw it a million years ago with Traffic Wardens [because the police were too busy to do the job themselves], then the tecs gave way to SOCO's [because the police were too busy to do the job themselves] and more recently yet more traffic wardens and PCSO's [because the police were too busy to do the job themselves] and now large numbers of motorway patrol officers [because the police were too busy to do the job themselves].... it may have been creeping but now its trotting...
And the same applies to civilian observers. They can do the job and do it just as well - are you really too busy to do the job yourselves?
Sell yourself, get your product noticed where it matters or soon this thread will be civilianised - how many sworn police pilots are there!!!
