Originally Posted by Finger Poking
Not Hidden.... or even bothered about what some over inflated Ego's think.
I stated Facts.
Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?
Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.
Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!
What is your major malfunction chap? The RAF has a long history and tradition of doing things 'the right way' and that includes standing on ceremony where necessary, it goes with the territory. Whilst the modern service has to be cost concious, IMHO we'd all be that little bit worse off if a long serving icon of the RAF that occupies a place in the hearts and minds of a good number of personnel were simply parked up and the keys handed over to the scrappy without some sort of recognition of the event. Did you not feel even a twang of regret when you got rid of your first car?
As for the money being spent, I'm sure you realise that pointing to something you believe to be a waste of money, and offering up how many of something else (you deem worthy) that money could buy is a pointless exercise. Things just don't work like that - otherwise you and I wouldn't be in a job. How many life saving cancer drugs could the MOD's budget buy for example...
I speak not as someone who actually worked on the Jag in service, but as someone who recognises the place such things have in the grand scheme. Maybe you are totally dispassionate towards such things, but fortuntaley others still maintain a some soul.