F34NZ
I totally agree your first sentence. Concerning your question about the sort of person we want defending us in the RAF, at my age I have long since stopped fussing about gender, colour or sexual preference. As long as someone can "do the business" I am most grateful to them. My old dad told me that the fighter pilots he shared an airfield when he was flying RE8s in WWI were mostly pi$$ed out of their minds when they flew. And I wonder how many B o B pilots would have passed a breathalyser? Of course in this age of multi-million pound aircraft the culture has had to change, and the heavy drinking seemed to have faded out with the first generation jets. But I am not sure the RAF is richer for the lack of eccentrics and mavericks. Anyway, I suppose the Reds are more about
PR than "Defence".
Do I detect an "ethnic" connection in your monica?