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Old 24th December 2006 | 07:37
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DW, yes I can see that to wrongly write a letter is trivially compared to the offence.

Some DW (Defence Writing) galls. I had a pilot boss at ISK, or rather he became my boss after we were sold down the river, who insisted on all letters to Group being signed off at an equivalent rank level. He couldn't see that this would stop the staish writing to the AOC.

Anyway he would only sign off letters he could understand. As he was not a Nimrod man, nor a weaponeer, that was not much. My ex-boss, now at Group, wondered why my letters were suddenly longer, incomrehensible, and signed off by a pilot. Naturally he replied to the signatory who As he was not a Nimrod man, nor a weaponeer, could not understand the replies.

OTOH its painful on the eye's with all these pokey little things like apostrophe's comma's. Beside's it's use adds lot's of extra keystrokes.
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