Point 1 - Aren't "planners" drawn from the pointy part of the team? So that wouldn't be admin, supply etc (or whatever constitutes 'blunty' nowadays)??
Point 2 - Stay away from IOT at Cranwell. I did a tour there where for a full year I had no leave whatsoever and put in the occasional 100+ hour week (the standard 40 hour week was a bit of a rarity).
Point 3 - Samuraimatt Please go away and shut up!
Point 4 - Whatever the rights and wrongs of the original article it was not good.
Point 5 - Here in Oz media interviews are regularly handled with aplomb by ranks as low as corporal. Don't know what the system of training is in the Australian Defence Forces but it seems to work.