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From the Daily Telegraph:

In a report published today, the National Audit Office (NAO) cast doubt on the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the decisions ministers took about the future of the Armed Forces. A continuing crisis in the defence budget raises the prospects of more major cuts, the watchdog said. It also […]

From the Daily Telegraph:

First there was the Government’s humiliating U-turn on its decision to sell large tracts of Britain’s forests. Then David Cameron was obliged to go back on his Justice Secretary’s plan to slash prison sentences for those who plead guilty early. Now we have the unedifying spectacle of the Government being […]

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

“Protect Military Pensions” Online Petition

I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes just a few seconds of your time.

Thanks!

Once upon a time, a Fighter Pilot asked a beautiful Princess, “Will you marry me?” The Princess said “NO!!”

….and the Fighter Pilot lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles, made many deployments, got good promotions and duty stations and made love to skinny big-breasted broads and hunted and fished and raced cars and went […]

Squint if necessary… Thanks Tim!

From Tony Clatworthy:

The Government have altered how your Military Pension is affected by annual inflation. They have changed the link from RPI to CPI which will decrease the value of your pension year on year. Below are some examples of the loss, which have been supplied by the Forces Pension Society, illustrating the cost […]

Here are just some of the problems the Captain of QF32 had in Singapore last week: