Make up your own mind Martin but this post from Brash (below) seems a
fair representation of the RAAfs attitude to their operational
screw-ups and inadequacies.

From such oafs right up to Air Marshal Errol McCormack, AO Chief of
Air Force who reportedly told Kim at the time of the tragedy she
would get a coronial inquest over his "dead body".

Thoroughly consistent with the BOI whitewash and subsequent treatment
of Kim and her kids.

Most wouldn't know Shorty's background or the RAAFs treachery.

He topped the class at the elite US Navy "Top Gun" test pilot school
and four of his classmates are now NASA astronauts.

Last year, his wife Dr Kim Short a RAAF reservist agreed to waive her
right to an inquest. The RAAF agreed, in return, to settle her common
law damages claim.

"Subsequently they pulled the Air Accidents Act out of the hat and
said I hadn't applied for compensation in the two-year period," she
said.

Under the Act, Squadron Leader Short would be regarded as a passenger,
limiting the maximum payout available to his family to $200,000.

Pack of *******s!

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:02:02 +1000, "Brash"
wrote:

"Vector" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:20:22 +1000, Martin Taylor
wrote:

There's a lead in article in today's Herald-Sun newspaper regarding the
widow of an F-111 pilot who was killed when his A/C crashed. It's about
how the widow is being denied "adequate" compensation.

Who here, who may have been in the RAAF, thinks that it's a fair
article, or a beatup?

Beatup? Wash your mouth out Martin - and don't expect anybody from
the RAAF to respond to this shameful blot on their character..

And do not, repeat NOT you or anybody else ever question ir describe
this bloody disgrace to todays ****weak organization of boy scouts
which basks in the former glory of the RAAF as a beatup.

Ain't it funny though that any number of these "boy scouts" could beat the
living **** out of you. What a disgrace for you, that would be.

Some could - most wouldn't.

So what anyway - Wanna address the more important topic of RAAF
treachery towards it's own dead?