My Full Support
If it was a commercial company would you see such compliaints when many thousand of pounds are spent on "Sports and Social" activities.
If the boys in Blue and Green, who risk there lives and freedom for sake of others, cannot get a bit of R&R then the world is a sorry sad place.
I would just love, for once, for some top brass to show some balls and say:
"My boys go the extra mile every day to keep others safe, putting themselves in harms way to preserve the lives of others (who often have done something stupid to get themselves lost/rescued/casevaced in the first place). I fully support the release of tension and increase in morale that this jolly may well have provided and if anyone disagrees, CLIMB INTO A UNIFORM AND LETS SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT"
Good for the CRABS they get payed !!!!e and work 24/7 when required. I fuuly support the infantesimal amount of tax I may have paid to give the lads a nice jolly.
And for the politician, bet he has never served queen and country risking the ultimate sacrifice for sake of others!!!!