Not uncouth, just straight to the point. Sorry if it offended your Grantham Poly educated fragility...
I’m afraid that my only experience of that is ‘Lynx 5 ‘ in NI; from that perspective your statement is totally without foundation.
Depends what era you witnessed Lynx 5. If it was in the latter stages of Op Banner then your comment is relevant. If was from an earlier period then maybe you were one of the crabs who felt aggrieved at a Sgt Pilot being Mission Commander/Aviation Commander of 2-4 Lynx, Gazelle, Wessex and Puma in South Armagh? Why do you think GOC NI wanted it that way?.....Because he knew his AAC chaps could do the tactical command bit and not just support the blokes on the ground but be an intrinsic part of the operation? Same can be said of current ops.
Nonsense! Stop guessing it makes you appear to be crass.
...clean up in aisle 1.....