ok sideways-scuttlers, enough with the inside jokes - what the score with this Wratten bloke, and someone refered to as 'the Scottish Officer'?

obviously, being Crabs i would expect them to be brash, ill-mannered, spineless, draped in man-made fibres and looking like security guards at Tesco's - but what is it that arrouses such, err.. 'passion' from Ppruners about these two in particular?

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Chimp more like! I was in the theatre, at Dhahran; he was very late and then proceeded to give us a bollocking, which I thought was a tad unfair.

3P :mad:

The blame game may have something to do with peoples views, but clearly he was winning his troops over long before that.

Pinkfin and threeputt, I was merely trying not get myself banned from these forums! Trust me, there is plenty more in my vocabulary, written and spoken, that could be brought to bear ...... but I had better not! :*

Nil - the air defence systems in question are still in service all over the world. Any aspect of their performance against allied aircraft, virtually all of which are still in service as well, will still be secret and will probably continue to be so until all those systems are history.

"The Scottish Officer"
 

Thanks Cokecan; I thought the nightmares had stopped. :ugh: Now they come flooding back.

Ignoring the generalisation about crab officers, the RAF, like any other outfit, has had and will have people who get to very senior positions despite the hinderance of a charisma bypass and other qualities that do not enhance their popularity, despite the perception in higher cirlces that they get the job done and are fit for command.

'He', was one of them. With the other guy, that's altogther another 4 beer convo...

That is all.

Didn't,

so the normal thruster/throbber thing, or a deeper, wider 'utter cock' personality that leaves a bad smell over everything it touches?

Unspeakably bigger and smellier Cokes; very perceptive!! :ok: