Warlord - there was a comic. Imagine if it was updated to the present day...Lord Peter Flint cutting around in downtown Basra...Union Jack Jackson serving in the troop surge with the Americans, wearing US uniform but carrying his trusty SA80...Squadron Leader Killer Kane in his trusty GR7 dropping enhanced Paveways on the Taliban...it goes on... Perhaps that way the media image might be improved if we saw some of the heroism of our brave boys and it might give people something to idealise.
I grew up reading such comics - Victor, Warlord and Battle that became Battle Action and Commando comic books - the same sort of people portrayed in there (with the possible exception of D-Day Dawson) are on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq or flying above it today, they are just perceived differently. Imagine today's issues - "This week Lord Peter Flint writes a business case to acquire some surveillance kit through the Surveillance and Special Projects IPT", "D-Day Dawson tackles a particularly thorny workflow notification on his JPA", "Killer Kane maintains his night currency"...