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32 don't just carry senior officers and royalty they carry politicians and civil servants as well see most of 32 parked on Ramp of Belfast city airport to bring the civil servants and politicans back to mainland for weekends.
Anyway, sorry for the thread creep. It's exactly this kind of assumption/rumour/false allegation that has caused yesterday's angst. Sigh.
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All, apologies for the delay in replying - I've been helping Mrs F_S search for a new job... Anyway, NURSE with all due respect to you Squire, I am well aware of what Kings Tp RHA's operational role is. It seems an awfully expensive way of doing the job undertaken by the HAC Signal Sqn and Gun Tp (as was) and which any half-decent TA Bty could do. 
As regards keeping the RA in the public eye, what a load of old cobblers. My current Corps (for the last 11 years), the Royal Corps of Signals, has the White Helmets, whose supposed job is to keep the R Signals in the public eye. Like most most OCs and COs in the Corps (not to mention RSMs and SSMs, etc.), I would gladly see the back of them if it saved a few quid.
This sort of Midsommer Murders County Fayre nonsense has to stop.
As regards keeping the RA in the public eye, what a load of old cobblers. My current Corps (for the last 11 years), the Royal Corps of Signals, has the White Helmets, whose supposed job is to keep the R Signals in the public eye. Like most most OCs and COs in the Corps (not to mention RSMs and SSMs, etc.), I would gladly see the back of them if it saved a few quid.This sort of Midsommer Murders County Fayre nonsense has to stop.
Ditching GR9 - that only went on ops twice using VSTOL in Sierra Leone and Falklands, the rest of the time using CTOL.
Other than that, some good points.
