PN you speak wisely as always, but my points are simple...
Expenditure claims are binary. They are either legal or fraudulent. End of.
Servicemen and women are the last people on earth to criticise anybody for maximising their expenses.
Aside from hyprocrisy, it grips my Sh1t when I see supposedly intelligent and educated people falling sucker to media bilge, such as this opportunistic trivial cr@p.
PS I was part of the burial party of a WW2 bomber pilot located and laid to rest in Denmark. I seem to recall 2 hours of solemn duty and 46 hours of wild partying...all at lizzie's expense. I'm struggling to see how that was wrong