Can't quite agree with your post v-t-1 but I do have a lot of sympathy for AB and FT. The RN claimed that they let them sell their stories in this manner so that they could do so with full support from the RN in media handling. If this is so then why have these young impressionable sailors been allowed to make a laughing stock of themselves and the RN? I think that it is a sad reflection of where we are today when it appears that nobody in their command chain has offered the support, protection and advice that young Junior Ranks in our military deserve. IMHO, the RN have handled this very poorly. It all started when they apparantly failed to adequately support their personnel to prevent them being taken hostage in the first place and has ended with poor support and advice on their return to the UK.