On one hand I do value the hard work and risk to life and limb undertaken by our service personnel in the name of Queen and Country. They do not get sufficient recognition or support in our modern society. I studied with a few of them during my ATPL groundschool. They were great people and I wish them well.
On the other hand, service personnel have benefitted hugely from extensive and very expensive flight training at the taxpayers' expense, good wages from a young age and they get a golden goodbye from the MoD in most circumstances. The recent BA recruitment drive did not discriminate against them.
It is a basic moral and legal principle that discrimination is unfair. Are we to forget this principle when those who benefit deserve it?
