The thing is, beagle, I agree with some of your underlying point about PFI; in a perfect world every branch of our forces would have all the very best kit, lots of it, paid for with cash on the nail. Is that likely?
How can you claim to be speaking for the (very few) youngsters trying to start RAF careers when you have only contemptuous cat-calls for those youngsters earning a living with ATrS -and TCX, come to that, without whom we'd be unable to deploy more than a small% of our forces.