I have a feeling someone in the MoD and/or Honours Committee is thinking “Oops”.
Why? If OC 120 get his award for his work
after the crash in supporting the families AND keeping his squadron together, operational and effective then he should rightly be recognised for his efforts.
Make no mistake, there is more to come on this, that no award will be able to gloss over.
That may be true but that is not what this is about. The award is not an attempt to
gloss over anything.
The award is to an individual for his and, no doubt, his teams (
Othe
Bugg3rs
Efforts) response to the crash, which in this case has been recognised by the relevant chain of command.
Any "own goal" here has been scored by TD. His comments, misquoted or not, in the Daily Record have rightly lost him a lot of sympathy.