What a complete load of absolute bolleaux, so far away from actuality to be total and utter dinosaur tosh.
Sorry to have pricked your balloon SFFP, you must be one of the newer fellows, or is just an in growing chip? Obviously you have never been in the position of sending the lads out? Thought not. Never entered your head that the armed forces actually involved fighting rather than just socialising?
It isn't all about pissing it it up when every opportunity prevails. When based in Ripon, Yorkshire, there were many, many pubs where we all met, all ranks, mixed, in Aden we shared every amenity, when 'Up Country'.
If the Dinosaurs die then so will the basic tenets that keep the armed forces from becoming just another great big huggy fluffy and totally useless Malcolm Club.