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Old 7th May 2007 | 19:42
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The reason these threads always get to slagging, is that whilst the RN/RM and Army have hundreds of years of relatively unbroken trust in each other doing their job when required, we do not, however, trust the Royal Air Farce to find its own @rse with both hands.

This alone we could live with, but the temerity of the RAF to even contemplate turning up at events commemorating the Falkland conflict is astonishingly brazen.
As if a couple of exchange pilots, one chinook, and one bomb on a runway makes up for the fact that hundreds of people in the RN RM and Army died due to the RAF successfully lying about the RAF's ability to project air power anywhere in the world.
A lie that led to the demise of our big carriers. The demise of airborne early warning over the fleet. The demise of adequate airborne protection and attack. The demise of many warships with many crew.

Go on then RAF.
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