Lt Cdr May (presumably retired, or someone will be having a word with him...) has a bit of a problem with the RAF, particularly after a retired AVM suggested that Alan Johnston ought to be invited to teach the RN conduct after being taken hostage. In response, he wrote (Times online comments, July this year)
This really is not the sort of letter one would expect any proper two star officer to write. Praise in public but criticism in private - but perhaps the air marshal and the RAF do things differently. To be honest, given that so few of the RAF actually fly or serve on, or even near, the front line, it beggars belief that a crab should so criticise any other armed service. The RAF has little to teach the Royal Navy though I admit that the incident to which AVM Macey refers was not its finest hour. The RAF's finest hour was 67 years ago ....
Colonel Tim Collins made a very good case for the RAF to be disbanded and its aircraft passed to the RN, RM and the Army, all of whom have real aviation and warfare experience. Think of the savings to be made and so little - just 89 years - tradition to be lost. Ane (sic) fewer silly letters, too!
Lester May, London, England
I have a feeling that he's written a similar letter before, since the name rings a bell for some reason. Whether he's written one or two letters, he's still talking rubbish for the reasons MM articulated in the post he's linked to.