Originally Posted by Chris

I'm still waiting to hear who he thinks would man his patrol vessels and skiddly second-hand T55s, given that he can't simply lay claim to an 8% share of the personnel of the UK armed forces. No man or woman can have their service transferred to a foreign country as if it were a football transfer. If they don't want to go, nobody can make them.

I'm definitely going to Armed Forces Day this year, it will be great to see our service people showing off their stuff and also quite amusing to see how many people aren't down the road in a muddy field by Bannock Burn, pining after a 700-year-old medieval dynastic squabble.