Slightly off topic (but you will see where I am going with this)...
The Def Sec may want to visit those that are are ill in hospital, or recoverying without limbs from their illness and ask theses people if their illness could have been avoided if more helicopters were available?
I recently dismissed an article that speculated that the current government would be remembered in history as the government that 'just didn't get it'. What is it that they do not get about the desperate and essential requirement for not only more helicopters, but helicopters that have more performance than the current valiant efforts of the Sea King and Puma forces?
Last edited by Front Seater; 9th Jul 2009 at 10:20.