Probably highlightng the difference between leadership and management. Having served on both sides of the fence my opinion is that the ground trades tend to the latter and the air trades to the former, for very good reasons (I stress they are not mutually exclusive nor universal).
Whichever side you fall on, I still believe that commanders should have the autonomy to either allow or disallow the men and women in their charge to go into a pub in uniform if the situation requires it (from either a managers or leaders perspective). The situation this thread relates to is a case in point.
I agree with Mr C on the thread creep, I saw where you were coming from. Nice to see a thread so well argued from all sides with very little degradation into slanging matches.
