Foreigners in the British military?

[Wee Jock]

Slightly off topic but an indication of how the MOD/Home/Foreign Office seem to make policy up as they go along - I was stationed at Cranwell in the late 80s and one of the guys who worked in the guardroom was from the West Indies, can't remember the exact country. He didn't have a British passport, so applied for one. Did he get it? - did he hell. So there he was, a Corporal in the RAF, but not deemed worthy of a British passport. I did wonder how on earth he got in in the first place. He wondered why he'd even bothered in the first place and left.