...six British Army rugby players beating a New York cop to a pulp
The OP is clearly a stickler for accuracy.
it is important that we encourage servicemen and women to at least try and maintain some sort of dignity, even in their drunkenness!
Agreed.
Yes, bravado and willy-waving can take place (if they must) but the modern soldier should remember (as those before have done) that in such circumstances a degree of restraint is in fact the greater show of strength and decidedly more British.
So public misbehaviour did not occur amongst earlier generations of British servicemen?
Deplorable as misbehaviour always is, I suggest you will find it less amongst today's serving personnel than in earlier times. And the likelihood of being discharged, should such misbehaviour be proved, is considerably greater in what you term these politically correct times.
there are of course one or two good Padres in the Forces
Generous of you!