Dear Mr Ward
Thank you so much for your regular letters to the press pointing out the failings of the Junior Service – they are most informative. Indeed, information they contain is second only to the inaccuracy of that information
. We can only imagine that you fail to realise the progress that has been made since you took part in that nastiness in the South Atlantic where, unless we are sadly mistaken, you were out-scored, nay, perhaps even outshone, by a member of that Junior Service (
sorry Moggie, couldn’t help myself
) that you now quite unashamedly choose to denigrate on every conceivable occasion. Perhaps this is made all-the-more difficult to stomach by the fact that the said member of the Junior Service was not even a Sea Harrier thoroughbred like yourself, but simply a half-retrained ground attack chap
! Anyway, moving on old sport; times have changed and if you really want to find the reasons for the fall from grace of the FAA I suggest you look closer to home – in the Admiralty perhaps? Toodle pip old man, and don’t stay out in that Caribbean sun too long – it fries the brain don’t cha know – oh, sorry too late!
CB