This is so much fun, can't wait for WG13 to truckup.
12 commandments look like justification to me, the Typhoon should have been scrapped and we take the cash to the aircraft storage in USofA. Then buy 100s of CH47 and A10s meaning we could have a truly useful RAF for current ops. Largeing it up in an air supremacy situation makes no sense to most.
The troops are served more and more by the RAF and the air-to-air is minimal, at the moment. What is the point of denying it - that’s what we are told to do. As for SAR - different fish and not even on this planet, by the way there are some SAR crews on detachment that have nothing to do with SAR and are definitely supporting the troops.
I don't think the fact that the RAF support troops mainly will change the fact that the Air staff (Upper) will continue to trump every meeting they go to and constantly whinge that every one is against them. Just get on with it and use your vote (pvr, election etc......) to oust the twits that put us in this madness.