dervish:-
Surely in a 'just culture' all ranks who lie/cover up would be court martialled?
You'd think so wouldn't you? We still wait for VSOs to be the subject of official investigation for the issuing of a knowingly false RTS that put a Grossly Unairworthy aircraft into full squadron service despite the Controller Aircraft Release limiting it to "Switch on Use Only". That should have limited it to being the most expensive procedures trainer ever and could thus have saved 29 lives. We still await investigation of the witnessed issuing of an order by a VSO to subvert the airworthiness regulations but sign them off as complied with. We still await investigation of the continuing cover up of the above to the extent that the formal inquiry into the Nimrod tragedy characterised it as a "Golden Period" of airworthiness! We still await investigation of the edict from ministers downwards that confirms that an order to subvert the regulations was correct and that disobeying such an order was an offence. We still wait...
It seems that all are equal under military law, but that some are more equal than others!