For those of you who have asked why I asked the question the answer is genuine curiosity
Having been to parties out at Bristol and been introduced to both Civil Servants and quite senior armed forces officers working at Abbey Wood and then reading the posts on here re all the multiverse of committees, task forces etc etc it occurs to me that a substantial number of the officer corps are deskbound at any one time
Clearly we have to have input from experienced people into Government processes and decisions but my real worry is that, in the long term, success in paper-pushing will be seen as more important than front-line experience.
If the brown stuff does hit the fan the ability to manipulate committees is unlikely to be of great use
