Comments by "John Allen" (@johnallen7807) on "RAF engineer says retiring Hercules is 'a gut-wrenching feeling'" video.

They don't! the A-400M is fine airport to airport but can't do a lot of the tactical stuff that SF units in particular need. Even the new Chief of the Air Staff admits that but they still go ahead and scrap it!
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@garagenigel Which makes a nonsense of NBC requirements then! Even in the field we had to shave everyday to ensure the respirator seal (and he still looks scruffy lol).
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Scruffy looking guy, since when have the RAF been allowed beards?
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@patricksullivan2261 Too busy worrying about "diversity" to think about a minor issue like force capability! This is the last letter I sent to Ben Wallace : Dear Mr.Wallace, 03 May 2023 Illegal RAF recruitment policy. Earlier this year I wrote to the Chief of the Air Staff to point out that his reported policy of rejecting white male recruits in the name of "diversity" was in my opinion illegal. I understand that the Head of Recruitment, a female Group Captain has already resigned in protest for the same reason. On 10 March I received a reply from the Air Command Secretariat (copy enclosed) where they assured me that "the RAF recruitment is open to all and selection is based on merit". Since then further emails have leaked saying they must stop choosing "useless white male pilots". From this I can only draw one of two conclusions, the first, he was lying about selecting on merit or, second, the recruiters are ignoring "merit" to hit a "diversity" target. Either way it is a complete shambles and I can only echo Tobias Ellwood and say that I too think the wrong person resigned! What in God's name are "diversity" targets doing in the Armed Forces anyway? Continuous Conservative defence cuts have left us with an Army smaller than at the time of Waterloo, a Navy with 19 major surface units and an air force with 6 frontline fighter squadrons. The last thing they need is some "box ticking" exercise putting off the few people that still might want to join. I look forward to your reply in the near future.
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@garagenigel It would be out fast enough if the bugs were flying around lol.
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@Dave-us5fq From the days when the RAF had "useless white male pilots" and 7.62 could actually do some damage!
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@1chish And as I told you before it can't provide the SF capability, can't you f******g read, even the Chief of the Air Staff admitted that!
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@ThatCarGuy But provided the RAF doesn't recruit any "useless white male pilots" I'm sure the box tickers in charge will be happy!
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