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An SWer is giving me grief about being disrespectful to King Chaz as a ex military person. So let’s be clear:

I didnt join the RAF because I get a chub on thinking of queen and country, I did it because it gave me an engineering career inaccessible to me on civvie street.

And why the RAF? Well for one - in the army everyone gets shot at, in the navy if the boat sinks everyone dies, but in the airforce only the officers and aircrew get shot at - I have two service medals for conflict zones, Op Telic and Op Shader, and the closest I came to combat was falling off a cliff on a donkey, and getting into a scrap with a yank who tried to confiscate our beer.

While I enjoyed my time serving, made many good friends and had loads of experiences so awesome that being a civilian feels totally shit, I doesn’t mean I give a tart’s furry cup about what goes on in Buckingham palace - because I’m sure as shit they’ve never given me or anyone I know a single thought. And I don’t see a problem with that.

That is all. Resume your social medianess.
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smiler2012 · 56-60
{@wintatheangle] yes i can understand where you are coming from on this one it is a sort of royal family duty to join the military service. though maybe not put in direct danger although prince andrew was in the maggie war sorry falklands conflict
WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
@smiler2012 In all truth Andrew spent that war as an SAR pilot and saved the lives of countless British sailors, some of whom and been very badly burned.

And if he had just made better decisions that would be all he would be known for, but alas…he became a nonce.