I'm not Military, but I hope you guys won't mind me posting here.
On a slight thread-creep, I was walking around a building site recently, the former RAF staff college at Bracknell. I would guess that HM government earned in excess of £ 30M for this piece of land, once numerous middle-men, agents, consultants, lawyers and friends had had their cut.
Now, the majority of development sites I seem to work on are former military, (Bracknell, Eastcote, West Drayton), or former Hospitals, or former schools.
My point is this. We are selling off the family silver wholesale, bringing in millions upon millions, yet, we are up to our nads in debt, our entire Navy can now fit in Portsmouth, our Air Force and Army have token numbers, our infrastructure is heading towards meltdown, so what are we going to do when there's no silver left to sell ? Where does all the money go ?
Keep smiling !