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Old 3rd Nov 2013, 15:53
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Originally Posted by ian16th
MoD lawyers soar as Armed Forces? budgets cut - Telegraph

During my 13 years service, I never met an RAF lawyer, or felt the need to.

Was I abnormal?
Yes.

I met one, a wg cdr, based at a secret base in mid-Lincs. He wasn't a real officer, his No 1 was not shiney and was creased. His department had been rusticated as part of the economy drive. I asked him whose side he was on. What he on our side or was he the enemy? The enemy he said.

His role was as prosecutor and not defence.

The military justice system were the guilty party can ask to be defended by any officer but the prosecution has trained professionals is surely wrong.
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