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Possibly I'm getting older, so although I see the posts exactly as you do, there are many 'little PC princesses' in this forum, who are very poor at banter and become insulted way too easily.
I guess we must also remember the RAF is largely not a military organisation, and so accept they cannot do the very basic stuff that the other services can do without even thinking about. Maybe I'm just jelaous because I was a 'green eyed boy' and served my country well, rather than be able to say I raised money for charity (I wasn't a charity worker, or that I did a lot of sports (I did do that but was a serviceman first). I realise those comments were in defence of the wrong man, but sums up the possibly poor priorities of some of the light blue gang.
(If you are too young or too precious for banter then feel free to be insulted. To the grown ups and warriors, he will have a hard time coming and should expect it
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