No room for Characters nowadays?
First toe in the water after years of silent observing and amusement......
What with all the kerfuffle about JPA, dets-rather-than-postings, and (heaven forfend) a thread about washing service vehicles, as well as lots of good serious stuff, it seems to me that there is precious little room for "Service Characters" anymore.
Is everyone (relatively) so cloned these days that we are becoming like the spams and having to do everything by the book? Where are the characters who, by standing out from the normal, made service life....er......well, better?
Like the Seletar mate referred to elsewhere who hitched an F4 ride over Laos, the Britannia mate filing multiple flight plans so the boss wouldn't task him?