Never heard that one before!If you want to be like us so much, why not join a real regiment like the Paras.
A couple of reasons, first class scoff, en-suite rooms in barracks, not being treated like a child by officers who don't trust their men to behave (was in Kenya earlier this year, all the Army were gated while the RAF were drinking down town and doing Safaris on their stand-down), being able to have an input to O' groups etc as a Lance-jack equivalent rather than being treated as a grunt etc.
Wouldn't be surprised at what you saw at Honington, i went through there 10 years ago and unfortunately things seem to be going down hill. However i suspect what you saw was probably a bunch of lads who had just arrived and were still finding their feet.
We're not 'trying too hard to be like you', why woulds we, we have a completely different role. If the fact that we are required to complete infantry training, employ infantry tactics, carry infantry weapons and wear DPM offends you then i'm sorry!!
I'm assuming the reason there seems to be no other RAF Regiment on this entire forum,is because of the slaggings every one of them has received from the people who don't understand what we are and do. I've never claimed us to be 'elite', 'special', 'air force commandos' or any of that bollocks, but i do know what training i have done and what tasks i've put my alll into in my career.
What exactly constitutes a 'professional soldier'?
By the way, i'm trying to keep this as light hearted as possible as i realise i'm in your section of the forum and feel like i've just walked into the fecking NAAFI at Colchester, on my own, wearing a RAF Regt T-shirt!
, still I looked great in DPMs 
