Shaft, IMHO I don't think filling up the military messes with swarms (or whatever their collective is) of fact-finding Walt PMs would be any more useful to them or their hosts than them sitting at the back of classrooms or getting in the way of harassed NHS nurses. Plenty of their constituents have not done this, or had necessarily any direct experience of these institutions (other than their own education or waiting on an NHS list). Nonetheless they instinctively know that the nation can only prosper if its people are safe, well and properly educated. Politicians live in their own world of agendas, spin and targets. That is particularly true of the present bunch, whose sole career is politics +/- law. The real world is kept safely at bay as they attempt to re-engineer it and us to comply with their own mantras. Unless some of the guys and girls who have served decide to enter this slippery den and reintroduce concepts such as service and duty instead of cliche and sound bite, things can only get worse I fear.