Melchette01 said:
"It's so frustrating trying to have a reasoned argument with people that have absolutely no clue whatsoever"
Which made me instantly remember this gem!
"If were talking about bits of the military that are no longer needed lets start looking at the Parachute Regiment."
Odd that a statement about a military unit that has a short but honourable tradition, which allows its members to do their job very very well....No matter how they get there should come from a poster who feels that:
"Its the other services job to learn what the RAF does"
But remains clueless about premier infantry.
Please take your own advice, and you may learn why the paras (and their can do attitude) are actually quite essential to the British armies ORBAT!
I suppose under that same kind of clueless thinking, you would be calling for AWACS, Typhoon and any other current RAF stuff not being used to be scrapped too.
Of course if the paras were scrapped as you suggest, then their NATO means of delivery could be scrapped too I suppose...The Hercules!