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Fair and reasonable? If that is the case why do 95 odd % of the honours go to Officers (Commissioned and Warranted?) Are you really saying that in majority of the Royal Air Force there aren't people deserving? Or is it as has been alluded to a case of people neither being able to or bothered to write up juniors?
It is because it is mostly the officers, commissioned and warranted, who are in a position of sufficient responsibility and who have the power to make a significant difference, or catastrophic cock-up, in a challenging situation. That is why the system rewards exceptional achievement.
If you favour a Corbinistic system where everyone gets a VC and KBE for successfully driving a refuelling truck, good luck to you.