Unfortunately there will always be short-sighted bumbling old fools like Blunt who have little better to do than think of different ways to complain as they no longer have poor soldiers to shout and bawl at!!
It doesn;t matter where you are there are always this sort of individuals that know what happens at a given location, then buys a house right next to it and then complains loudly (with there full retired title on display) and makes themselves look like complete idiots. A very good csae in point - a retired Army officer bought a house very close to Porton Down, and specifically the exercise area. Now I don't know how many people are aware of this but there is a part of the exercise area called the battle run. The purpose of this part of the area is to enable platoon level tactics in a simulated NBC environment - this entails the large scale use of CS gas, from canisters, baton round/grenade launchers and the like (plus batsims). The run is only used on a very few number of days a year and the odd weekend for certain TA units. Guess what? Yes, first phone call of the morning or even on the day of the training within minutes of the first canister goes "pop", there is Colonel Blimp complaining loudly about the cloud drifting over his property!!! I am sure there are loads more examples similar to this.
Maybe part of the resettlement brief should be to remind retirees is that just because you retire from proffessional life you don't retire from the world of common sense or reason.
