TACT - OFF
This makes me grumpy because it's taxpayer's, and read that as my, money that will end paying for this. I lost a good mate on that aircraft, but I fail to see why we should continue to pay out vast sums for the inability to use hindsight - they died, very sad, but no amount of compensation will bring them back. Do we suggest that compensation is due to relatives that lost grandparents in the Great War for not having adequate chemical warfare kit, or dropping personnel 'a bridge to far' in Holland? I agree with Blighter Pilot - where does it all stop?
Isn't that why our partners get widow's pensions, lump sums and also payouts via DINCOM?
The Nimrod business makes me equally grumpy...
TACT ON
Dreadfully sorry for being tactless and ruthlessly blunt but I felt the need to vent my opinion. I am, after all, entitled to the free speech for which so many of our Service People died to protect.
LJ