It must be such fun to be in the RAF these days - supreme grasp of the non-essential seems to be the over-riding order of the day.
I don't recall the oldies pulling anything less than their weight when I was on my first tour - and a happy and instructive bunch they were too! Nor did they keel over with heart attacks every few minutes.
Whilst I avoided the bolleaux of the utterly stupid and totally pointless jockstrapping test as far as was reasonably possible after it came in, when I PVR'd at the age of 52 I breezed the RAFFT and discharge bollock-fondling to make sure that no-one could accuse me of being unable to meet the contemporary requirements. Nonsense though they undoubtedly were.
Saw a documentary on the 1960s V-force not so long ago. How things were more civilised back then..... And, funnily enough, 50 year olds weren't expected to behave like a bunch of labourers from the SWO's working party....