My apologies to the last 3 posters if I've upset you with MY opinion.
It's just that, an OPINION. I'm on the outside, looking in. I find the whole concept of killing my fellow man in cold blood, because my "superior" says so, to be immoral.....
Although i quoted the sacrificial force of "D" day, I wasn't necessarily saying the corruption/incompetence applied to only "Queen's Regulations" forces....it was basically a reply to the poster who tried to justify just why this Heli crew may have been killing their kith and kin.
in the ground position, I, too would have defended myself
(theres the dichotomy.)
Presumably, them lot are ignoring Q.R ?
Oh, ..and had the "movers and shakers" in the Falklands war been competent enough to log the fact that we , AND the enemy both had Exocets , Simon Weston might have kept his original features.
Sorry, I can't accept gaffes on this scale from a "superior" to whome I've entrusted my continued existence.
To those who have served , come out the other end,and still have a life to enjoy, I salute you...I.m too much of a coward to have ever contemplated Military service.