Trooping the Colour... are you suggesting that ALL of the guards regiments should be deployed ALL of the time? RN fleet reviews - should we NEVER have enough ships in the UK for such a review? Flypasts - should we never have enough aircraft for a flypast?
These are too superficial to be described as "fat". They are excellent
PR for the Forces, and probably repay their value to the country through tourism and recruitment.
Please don't even hint at ditching them! Hoon already tried to get rid of 90% of bandsmen / stretcher bearers a few years back. Where will it all end?