I wonder why some of the genuine cream of top pilots in the RAF, past and present, do not contibute here to help their poor inadequate brethern. People like Thomas Kennedy, Michael Stear, Michael Knight, Michael Graydon, etc, all of whom always had a good word to say about the plods.
When millions of pens, pencils, paperclips, paper, rulers, china graphs, rubbers, were being ''''used'''' at a secret airbase outside Witney, Air Pubs staff thought it very odd, as staffing levels on base suggested that only 0.0000001% of this amount should be used. So the suspicion was, due to our '''sneaky beaky background checks''' that aircrew in particular were prone to 'nicking' such items, so Staish ''ordered'' a hard crack down with searches of all cars, brief cases and plastic bags leaving the base during one afternoon....... Well, amongst allegations from the toffee nosed ruperts, were things like ''have you nothing better to do Cpl?'' as we impounded crate loads of ''stolen goods''.... One Flt Lt had 2 full boxes of HM's biro pens in his nav bag.....(very greedy b@st@rd).... Over a period of a month at no-notice searches being sprung for half hour sessions or so 24/7, we recovered enough stolen goods to equip the whole RAF for years......CO was most appreciative of our '''zeal''' when searching, although probably no-one else was... No charges or arrests made, but everybody on base got the message, that next time CM and the order of the boot... Several careers came to a halt, never to recover. What a shame (NOT)
At a Friday afternoon 'fanta and coke do' at the end of the month, CO came along and said that we would take a lot of flak for what we had done on '''his orders''' that month, but we should be proud of our work, and we knew he mean't it... Damn fine CO he was.... guarenteed to get to the top, as he did later on, ACM.
Cannot see any of the aircrew on this forum getting to ''the top''
Just not up to the challenge...