Originally Posted by Blue Suit
If the military does not need us 'blunties', why don't they make us all redundant then all of you at the 'sharp end' would be supported in your roles by civil servants.
It may be opportune to point out that the Navy has been supported from shore-side by Civil Servants for a few hundred years. At sea, of course, it's Civil Servants and Merchant Seamen. The concept of Bluntie is a peculiarly Air Force thing and is probably due to the ratio of weapon Platform operators to weapon Platform supporters (do they wear coloured scarves and bobble hats while waving flags and chanting/singing?). In a warship, the "name game" grinds to a stop because the "jack dusty" in the store shares the same coffin as the boss fellah on the bridge.
I also note that the H Stacker has grasped the jointery end point;
Everyone in the British Forces except the Infantry is blunt, we're all here to support the boots on the ground folk.
If you look carefully at each single service doctrine, he's pretty close.
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