Pencil dropping aside, I reckon the article does what it was intended to do - give civilian readers a glamourised glimpse of life in Iraq with the RAF from a woman pilot's viewpoint. As to sharing tents with male crew members, in your old fashioned way the military try to keep men and women apart, but we civilians don't regard mixed accommodation as particularly shocking.
This quotation from an earlier post puzzles me though...
...hell bent on parading population minorities...
What minority exactly does she represent? Women were in the majority within the UK population last time I looked. Perhaps she's a black seventh day adventist, but the article doesn't mention race or religion. Flying aeroplanes is womens' work anyway - as all we 'ground crew' know perfectly well.
