rafloo, I do hope you're joking.
Having been on Chinooks for nearly 10 years I only wish the rest of the British Military displayed the same 'can do' attitude and welcoming smiles in the middle of nowhere as the boys and girls from Stafford.
I am very saddened by the tone of many of the posts on this thread. PPRUNE was once a place to gossip and to find out how best to screw the Service for allowances. It now appears to have become a site for outrageous posts designed to incite friction.
We all know that the Army couldn't possibly take on the SH fleet nor the Navy our fixed wing assets; nor could the RAF succesfully manage a fleet of warships. Maybe PPRUNE could close it's military wing and the 3 Services could operate individual sites. The civvys must think we're idiots.