I can't believe that nobody has yet responded to the suggestion set out in today's 'Daily Torygraph' letters page - it's just made for a pprune inter-service barney!
Basically a Lt Ernest Coleman RN suggests that the RAF should be disbanded forthwith.
"A massive, single-weapon organisation draining defence resources at the expense of the Army and,particularly, the Royal Navy is patently absurd." The existence of a separate service solely for aircraft is "a dangerous nonsense" continues young Coleman.
With a sweeping flourish he moves into his finale;
"Air capability should be returned to the Army and the Royal Navy before the defence of this country is finally rendered impossible by the current unbalanced arrangement."
I imagine that there may be some alternative views on this interesting suggestion?
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