VDH, I would ask questions off your TRUCE set up if you have valid controllers unable to understand the implications of a hydraulic problem or other situations considered 'basic.' Injs, it sounds like you work at a unit which deals with military regularly in which case surely completion of the UTP should cover these aspects. LnL, no I do not have the answers to all these questions, some but not all, but tell me where the harm is in asking a pilot to tell you his requirements if it's an unusual suituation, better to give them what they need than think we know, the rest you learn through experience and keeping up to date with current developments. Maybe I am being pedantic but I don't think professionalism is the the same as having an interest and anyone who does our job should be professional or leave the job its not a past time, and on that note I am off to look up some answers!