Points to ponder...
Maybe the Army do a whole year at Sandpit to try to correct some of the inbreeding amongst the upper classes, who knows...
Or maybe we don't need a whole 12 months to learn to march and develop ourselves as officers?
I take it the highly effective jungly force were just a bit too busy to support your RM in Afghanistan recently? Where all the airwork was done by wokka's. Methinks the Sea Queen doesn't have the performance and should be replaced by half the number of CH47s.
Read Barndoors' comments again, very astute.
And incidentally, whenever the 'Senior Service' tried to banter at CHOM, we just remarked on the irony of having the impressive HMS Daedelus as OUR College.