{RAF} Airmen told 'no uniforms in city' (BBC) {anti-war sentiment}

[eppur_se_muova]

Airmen have been told not to leave an RAF base in uniform to avoid being verbally abused by civilians.

Officers at RAF Wittering reported that servicemen have been taunted by people in nearby Peterborough who oppose UK involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Although military staff are encouraged to wear uniform in public, a local decision was made against doing so in the city, the Ministry of Defence said.

The government is investigating as "a matter of urgency".
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshi...

As much as I might agree with the sentiment against the war, it makes no sense to take it out on the troops. Hate the war, love the warrior. And here I had thought Brits were particularly sensitive to the distinction between the officers and enlisted men.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. That's messed up n/t

[I work for workers]

2. No more messed up then this site's seeming ambivalence to today's bombing.

:grr:

[noamnety]

3. It's messed up, but

in the long run perhaps it's not as bad as going too far in the other direction, glorifying the military and teaching young kids that enlisting is the highest honor there is. And it sounds like they were engaging in some of that behavior in the past: "encouraged to wear uniform in public."

(saying this very hypocritically as someone who wore my bdu pants to my civilian job today)