Many of these comments are extremely insulting to the people in the RAAF and other armed services who work very hard and can be called upon to put their lives at risk to protect YOUR freedoms. Have you ever considered that problems such as 'rigid thinking' are a feature of the system rather than the individuals that work within that system? It's about time some people woke up to the fact that the Public Service is a bureaucracy, with all the disadvantages that type of system entails. It is not a commercial enterprise. You won't get anywhere by attacking a few individuals who have little or no chance of changing the way the system works.
The suggestion that RAAF officers can't cope with decision making in an environment where "information flow is less than perfect and decisions need to be made under uncertainty" is, quite frankly, laughable, as are some of the other derogatory comments above.