Sadly it doesn't always seem to be the case, but this Forum has been instrumental on a number of occasions in getting representation - often from Cadets who did make it on time - to the funerals of fallen comrades who apparently had no-one to mark their passing.
In a busy and ever more thinly spread regular RAF (now smaller than the Met Police
) it increasingly falls to the volunteer of one sort or another to step up to the plate and provide the "light blue footprint".
Which they generally do extremely well........
