Tourist - I am with your argument 100% - and even if the crabs claim they are overbourne with high quality applicants, in this day and age, a little money spent on
PR is good - it keeps Joe Public reminded of what the Forces are about.
I left several years ago and now work for reputedly one of the best companies in the world in my trade... we have an unbeliebvably high amount of applicants and the start of application to finishing training chop rate is extremely high - however, Joe Public has absolutely no comprehension about what we do, even though if we chose to strike for even 1 day, the country would come to a standstill.
We have issues in our company at the moment, but we won't get public support because of their ignorance as to our task because of very poor
PR - that's why I think that the RN/RAF/Army should advertise, even if they have lots of applicants - it keeps those who are not interested in joining up aware of the good work that our Forces do