Well, no, but being someone who has a scintilla of optimism left...

At least it's 'bought' rather than 'retrieved from the large stock of mouse mats purchased in the 1990s (some with an image of Old Joe on them), not taken up by staff and subsequently lost for some years in the photocopying room'...

The Postman Always Rings Twice?

You'd forgotten that I'm on here, then....

Historically - you've got regimental links, links between ships & links between squadrons. The latter, for instance, saw some squadrons bear the name of Commonwealth territories (also see 75 Squadron's permanent transfer to the RNZAF to honour the unit's service in WW2)

(TinyURL is working for me again) RN - tinyurl.com/4shwjnd3tinyurl.com/2k36wsya Also see lateral recruitment to/from Australian forces et al. Historical links between the services are very strong, of course.

You might look at: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...ukdefencejournal.org.uk/applications...jobs.army.mod.uk/how-to-join/.... [RN & RAF info in next]

I'm feeling reasonably pleased that it was a rewatch of Peter Taylor's documentary about Op NIMROD...

You should see some of the queries I get as to whether I've written about Merino sheep... I've a sense that their AI programme - please tell me it *is* AI that's doing this - may not be the most cutting edge one out there... Might even spot something I *have* written eventually.

... it was also thought that bringing in the services would lead to the managers running the stations walking out and that it was best to let them get on with it, rather than see the submarine turn up and then find no functioning grid (if the plan worked anyway) to contribute to...