Its all a matter of how the likes of AMP perceive public atitudes. They are deeply concerned with getting on the right side of people whom one would not ordinarily associate with anything military, perhaps with a view to wider political/public sympathy. Someone said something earlier about maintaining good tradition and simply wishing to serve. Officially puffing one's chest up, so to speak, over something which truth be known the R.A.F. like the other services, have been compelled to accept, is doubtless, against the service chiefs' natural instincts I'm sure. Their more natural inclinations toward what kind image a traditional military force should have, will differ wildly from this kind of anything goes image, more in keeping with a Bar on the banks of the Achterburg Val.
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