And I agree with you RI.
Slightly off thread but back in 197x one of the Sgts in ASF turned up for work and seemed to be a bit off balance as he walked across the hangar floor, also his speech sounded a bit strange. These effects became worse and so I asked the Flt Sgt to escort him up to the Med Centre and get one of the JMOs to sober him up.
Turned out he had MS. If we had had decent breath testing in those days he would have been spared a little hassle and no little embarrassment.
He went downhill pretty quickly and was medically discharged. The MoD pensions actuaries, in their wisdom, decided to reduce his pension drastically because he only had a very short life expectancy. Tough shxt on his wife and kids living in a house with a mortgage, which otherwise he would have been able to cover.
Sorry for thread drift but this just reminded me how angry I was.
Rgds SOS
Last edited by SOSL; 28th Mar 2013 at 18:12.