Well that’s because Nijmegen & Dodentocht medals aren’t allowed. Not least when they’ve been bought off eBay without actually completing either.
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This 
Awww come on it’s fun
Like whack-a-mole walt, watching what thread he pops up in next
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And a lot of us have more responsibility outside of RAFAC than most RAF officers have.
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Really?
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It’s the 2nd of April, not the 1st.
It’s not untrue though is it? Many people who run or who are senior managers in complex businesses will have far more responsibility than a Flt Lt in the station supply flight.
I’m regularly responsible for the immediate safety of 60,000+ people, not many RAF officers have that to deal with.
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I’m really struggling to see why it’s such a ludicrous statement myself, I myself probably have more professional responsibility than most junior officers.
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I know many junior officers who basically have no responsibility. Just doing admin clerk roles whilst waiting on training…
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I know regular Flt Lts and Sqn Ldrs who are not much more than admin clerks…
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It could be argued that those making decisions in the operational space, along with those informing and supporting that process, are responsible for the immediate safety of 70,000,000+ people.
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So… Because the officers at the very top are making those decisions, we ignore the ones at the bottom?
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You don’t have to be at the very top to be making life or death decisions. A trigger happy flt lt in a Typhoon could start WW3.
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Not many Flt Lt have the means to start WW3, lets be honest 
Most are not pilots, and most of the pilots are not fast jet with missiles.
He’s clearly not arguing in good faith at this point.
You don’t have to be at the very top to have strategic influence. The RAF is much less rank oriented than the other services and we’ll put junior ranked SMEs in front of air officers and/or ministers to shape their understanding.
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Not these days but they did have in the past, at least on V bomber Captain was a flying officer.
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How much responsibility did you have in your late teens/early twenties, when you were just starting out?
How much responsibility did you have before you were trained to do your job?
Yes, because ‘People Operations’ is a job. They ensure people are deployed to combat areas fully prepared and trained. Failure to do these ‘admin’ jobs could result in deaths.
How many people in their civilian jobs, could, at very short notice, be leading their work colleagues into a combat situation, with all the life or death decisions that brings?
And a few of us have more responsibility outside of RAFAC than very junior RAF officers have.
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Early twenties, well, I was quite ahead of a lot of the bar in terms of how quickly I qualified. I was a level 2 Crown prosecutor. I worked as junior and disclosure junior on some high profile cases including a murder. The disclosure job was vital as channel 4 were making a documentary about the vase, and creating potentially undermining material at a rate of knots. If I wasn’t on top of the whole of it, a whole 5 defendant murder trial may have collapsed, costing probably hundreds of thousands of pounds to the public purse.
I defended a man accused of a multi-million pound wine fraud, demonstrating clearly, that not only was he not guilty, but positively innocent of the charges, as I had found the evidence which the Crown has missed, that his co-defendants has been forging his signature to set him up as the fall guy. If he had been convicted he was looking at over a decade in prison.
So yeah, I did easily have more responsibility in many ways than RAF officers of a similar age. What I really do not understand in this thread is how that’s become a controversial statement? Others will have had more responsibility, they’re RAF Officers, they’re not Gods.
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Oh go on then mighty Turbo, tell me why that deserved a head slapping emoji