One piece of misreporting by Mick Smith of the Telegraph and you chaps drift off on a rant about camoflague kit!
Surely if there is to be a question about how many Services there should be it should be handled incrementally:
First - lets have only one Army (sorry Rocks and Bootnecks); then only one naval service (bang goes the RLC Port Sqn etc) and only one air force (sorry FAA, AAC, JHC, RA UAV Regt, and the Royal Marine Air Wing or whatever they call themselves).
Once we've got that squared away we can then look at combining all three in to one after a decent interval - say another 100 years or so.
At the same time HMT should ask why we have so many separate Police Forces, Ambulance Services, Fire Services - there are plenty of potential amalgamations out there which would all save a bit of dosh to spend on buying votes at the General Election - or paying some more allowances and expenses to our democratically elected representatives.
