Agreed with the 'risk averse' and pathetic ADF
PR people nowadays .
Recently in the town of Benalla, in the same area as the 'Weary' Dunlop memorial, a memorial to a daring WW II RAN captain, Hec Waller, was unveiled at a public ceremony (by all accounts his actions against the Japanese were deserving of a VC).
Actors, I kid you not, had to be sent from Melbourne in Navy rig for the ceremony. The Navy would not allow even one of their helicopters to do a fly past; a local civilian pilot in his homebuilt did the task.
Quite understandably our servicemen are heavily committed with limited resouces, yet I noted a Navy UH 1B putting on a display at a recent Temora air show... maybe your family has to own a string of shopping centres...
