Sure, she’ll be held accountable for it but that’s a different thing.
I’ll guarantee she has a daily morning brief that will cover security and she’ll have been told every morning that all’s good.
I’ve often been the person bringing the bad news and been told that there is no point telling the boss because there’s no money to fix it.
Yep, she has to go.
Apart from not being able to control the numero uno function in the military, by taking her eye off the ball, not only did she cripple part of her armoury, she has cost the rebuild of a $35M engine at great cost to the taxpayer.
She won’t though, there will be an enquiry, fault will be found but, by that time, everyone will have rotated out.
And, being cynical, you don’t get to be CO without having gained the skills to throw someone else under the bus.
Side point, but I would treat all types of graffiti as treason!
Why should everyone have to tolerate the deterioration of their surroundings because of a few selfish people.
The same goes for littering.
And bring back hanging while you’re at it.
I think that it was Larry Niven who postulated a future where organ transplantation became routine and scarless so the rich kept themselves alive by transplanting new organs as necessary.
Needless to say the punishment for littering was death (and organ harvesting).
I think that’s a great idea so long as everyone who votes for it signs a waiver that they’re content to be hanged following an unsafe conviction.
I think they only sprayed paint on it. I don’t think a jet noxxel built for 1700 degrees Celcius would trrally care about a couple of pints of Dulux.
I agree. I just don’t think their silly actions justify being lumped in with Al-Qeada. They should be dealt with through the usual court channels. Yvette Cooper\s been a great disappointment to me.
My initial thoughts too Robert. Maybe the over response by the authorities is an attempt to deflect that a couple of headbanger kids breeched military security. Thank goodness some terrorists didn’t do it or there could have been smoking wrecks on the tarmac, not dripping Dulux.
Thay should just fire it up and see what happens, like they do on Car SOS. Anyway, it may have been due a rebuild soon regrdless.
Never would have happened if Biggles was running the base.
I’m sure you’re joking but they need confidence that everything is 100%. If I remember rightly, they’re contracted as a service rather than owned so I’d be curious where the cost lies for swapping out the engines.
There’s a video online of them spraying paint into the engine.
Running perhaps not after a few coughs and splutters
But into an unpowered engine the paint is going to coat and solidify on surfaces which could wreak all sorts of havoc.
I’m 100% with the article. Labeling property damage and civil disobedience as ‘terrorism’ sets an extremely dangerous precedent. There’s a clear distinction between disrupting buildings/equipment and actual violence against people. This seems like an attempt to criminalize legitimate protest and dissent under the guise of national security. Civil disobedience has a long history as a tool for social change, and expanding terrorism laws to cover non-violent direct action threatens democratic rights more broadly.
Welcome, @Sibila.
Don’t forget you can take the opportunity to introduce yourself and your connection to France.
Citation My own view is that whilst trespass and criminal damage are of course to be frowned upon, in a way, the UK Gov’t and MOD should be thankful of being shown that the security arrangements at RAF Brize Norton are clearly woefully inadequate.
Yes - Indeed, that would be my opinion , too …
When I last lived permanently in the UK, (albeit over 50 years ago) - Such a security breach would have been enough to force a Minister’s Resignation
Fire it up and the engine would be destroyed. Just a small change in the aerodynamics or balance of the fan blades on a modern jet engine would do that. It’s interesting how jet engine fan blades are made. Each is a single grown metal crystal so as to be as perfect as possible. It’s more crazy than hard drives riding nanometres above the platter surface.
I bow to your superior knowledge of the technology 
However what’s a couple of engines compared to +/ - 30,000 women and children killed by IDF
war criminals?
Maybe the worm is turning…
Wonderful to have them here