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Old 3rd Sep 2017, 14:57
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Pretty much exactly the same way they would feel about spending 6 months in the desert, but you rarely hear people dripping about 'I didn't join the Navy to live in a tent in a land locked country'.

To me the obvious solution is to let the RN do carrier flying in total. This won't happen over night, but a starting point would be a MoU that when the F35A has been built up to significant numbers, F35Bs will xfer to the RN. It worked ok for the Merlins.

The one point that I will agree with MSOCS is that there really isn't any excuse for winging about going to sea. The RAFhave been embarking now since the mid 90s. I think it would be reasonable to understand that in a time of dwindling resources, if you're on the SH Force or LII force you're going to go to sea. Likewise RN maintainers should expect to deploy to overseas land bases....which they do and amazingly just seem to get on with it.

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