I think any serviceman/women past or present, who read the pompous (and factually BS) reply to the "campaigners" email by some chiseling bureaucrat about our employment status in Scotland would be immediately angry and on DV's side.
Of course it could be more than just service people. If para 2-07 of the 3rd Edition of Carmichael is all that it is claimed to be by the Crown Office's in their letter to the Justice Committee, dated 21st May 2015, then it applies to "police officers on duty and deaths of members of the forces, regular or part-time and including visiting forces, while on duty".
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