As is pretty standard on this forum a young bloke asks a perfectly straight forward and sensible question only to be met with a barrage of unhelpful, rude and frankly embarrassing comments!
You are, on the whole, a bunch of miserable, sanctimonious old farts! I suspect many of you have only dubious and tenuous links to military aviation let alone the topic in question and couldn't contribute anything useful even if you wanted to.
Rant complete.
Radbrit, as the only helpful poster here said; get in touch with the units directly. They'll be more than happy to chew the fat with you and tell you how it is. I can put you in touch with someone on the fixed wing side just PM me.