I agreed 100% with Hinecap's post.
Its all down to individual officers and SNCOs attitude and approach though, and in my (now outdated by a few years, admittadly) experience, many (not all) RAF ones sucked big time. And I regretably include Fireguard callsigns in that. Although one or two went the extra mile when confronted with a situation, that was because of personal qualities and levels of compassion that you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere, and rarely little to do with a sense of duty or professionalism bought about through training or indoctrination, or actually caring for the men.
Last edited by Al R; 3rd Sep 2008 at 08:57.