In my experience, some RAAF Mirage pilots were self-opinionated windbags who flew an aircraft with about enough range to defend the outer marker. Our bombers, transports, helicopters and FACs (OK, FACs were fighter jocks and I take my hat off to them) were in Vietnam. At least our Navy Skyhawk 'knucks' had a carrier landing to cope with at the end of their sorties (also always 'training').
Yet the RAAF of the seventies and eighties had this bizarre culture of 'if you ain't a fighter pilot, you ain't sh-t'.
P.S. Is RAAF News still called 'F-18s and Doggies Monthly'?
P.P.S. Is it true that the only aircraft shot down by the British RAF since the end of World War Two have been their own?
Last edited by Captain Dart; 10th Feb 2010 at 05:21.