having read this thread, I am reminded of a conclusion I came to many years ago whilst working at one of the RAF bombing ranges, Holbeach to be exact.
For the spams, being in the game is not enough. They will lie, cheat, make false promises and give enormous backhanders to WIN.
The number of occasions we had telephone calls from so called "Officers and Gentlemen" offering us beer, stickers, badges, their younger sister's virginity (see false promises, above) or anything else we could think of so that we would change a bomb score from "You missed by HOW much?" to an acceptable score were numerous.
Given that lots of people in politics and the aerospace industry over there started in the military is anyone really surprised at these developments? I'm surely not.
