I feel an increasing urge for a rant in relation to Melchett01's post. When one looks a little closer, I think that you will find 'The Mighty Rod' has a rather high Airman to Officer ratio. I think that you will also find a significant amount of airmen, aircrew and groundcrew, manning quite a few of our other air assets "facing the enemy". Willing to wager in fact that the ratio overall is pretty equal!!