Will everybody please stop whining.
1. Aircrew need to be fed to fly safely. Fact
2. Lineys deal with left over food. Fact
3. There ought to be meals provided for guards etc. Fact
4. Pay as You Dine was a good idea. Fact
5. All of the military is run by accountants. Fact
6. Said accountants get huge pay rises and perks for every percentage point they shave. Fact
7. These bean counters cannot see beyond a spreadsheet, for them nothing else is real. To them Flight Safety is someone elses job. FACT.
I would like nothing more than going for a flight, secure in the knowledge that up front in the pointy end, the seat/stick interface has had a full load of pies and is compus mentalists enough to drive me to my destination. How many of these moaning blunties have ever taken a ride in a pointy go go ship and seen first hand how hard the job actually is. TSM and PN and other aircrew. I have never believed in the theory of the aircrew being a master race, when I was in we all were a team achieving the mission
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Then we would go and get pissed, don't tar us all with the same brush as some of these moaning feckers that are too miserley to see the need for free food.
Can I have a pie please mr Pilot Sir
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