Respect to our German mate.... forget the offspring of governmental figures getting some 'air time' in with the mil.... whaddabout a few of the the current 'front-bench' of the gumment (Sainted Gordon and his sidekick Des Browne) spending a couple of hours in the bowels of a Wokka in Helmand?...... Better still, perhaps they could be trained as 'Predator' pilots (airborne, naturally!!).