Originally Posted by SARowl
Unfortunately for the British Army and RAF fast jet pilots, RAF Seakings will never deploy to a combat theatre. Rescuing bikini clad lovelies from the beach whilst being videoed by the Air Force propaganda dept, has far more
PR value than saving our boys in the Middle East. Also no AFC's for rescuing downed airmen in Afghanistan - because that's the job you're supposed to be doing.
All true, apart from the fact that anyone in the RAF knows that our half-ar$ed
PR dept couldn't get it in the news if we rescued Claudia Schiffer from the coast after she crashed the baby-oil tanker she was skippering into the Swedish netball team's cruise liner.
That, and the fact that the RN get all the AFCs nowadays...