Nutloose wrote:
Nope I stand by what I said, you very rarely have airmen assaulting SNCO's which is what this is roughly equivalent to.
I think the current case involves something more like a Flight Sgt hitting a pair of Corporals. Not unheard of but very rare. Apart from anything else, they drink, mostly, in different bars.
"Honest laddies and Bonnie lasses, do not good gunners make" is an expression that I recall from early days of RAF Regiment training. The weapons instructor who told me that, in 1973, was confident that I was more suited to drinking coffee in Air Traffic than being out at the gate with a gun.
Looking at the stats I posted a link to, we need to expect the fighters to fight. But we really should be able to expect better of senior officers. Holding your drink,
and knowing when to fur cough out of it when you see that others aren't holding theirs, are skills that should come with age. Those skills ought to be required for promotion as well.