Exactly finest kind, I agree entirely.
The General is operating within the rules, set by someone else and not him, and is probably "fit to fight " in his current role (though unfortunately unlikely to catch up Jayand and recover his second fish and chips, Seldom
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Seems that the modern disease of style over substance is involved in this somewhere, Airships feeling ego damage when someone compares muscly pongo's to wobbly linies. The only way that I could see fat affecting your performance to fix a jet, would be if it stopped you getting at what you needed to fix.
Just imagine what the headlines would be though if the good General took it on himself to redress the obvious flaws in the system.....he can't win either way