As a pongo I totally sympathise with the problems of todays RAF, lack of manpower, many deployments and last minute taskings etc. In my unit we have the same problems and people are voting now with their feet which creates more shortages.
An American Officer recently said the UK wants to be a world player but doesn't want to pay for it.
At a time when the MoD is now being run by accountants with spreadsheets and it is more important to get your weekly toilet roll return in that it is to plan for training; things will only get worse.
So why don't you sign off? I hear many of you say. I have and I suppose that makes me selfish for creating more manpower shortages!