First off -
Am I to assume, from your style of prose, that you are in fact the lead hack for the RAF News?
The "new style" RAF News is a dreadful rag written by a selection of folk whom I suspect don't even know what "RAF" stands for. At least the old News was written by people who seemed to have a semblance of understanding of what it is the RAF (and the units therein) actually
do rather than banging out the "gor-blimey, our lads, innit" articles on the C17 bombers of 43 Sqn based at RAF Brize-Fenton that we have to endure today...