Would this happen in any other country ?

[RetSet]

It seems to have been based on somebody compaining on a previous occasion with a different RAF bod.

Of course, the correct thing to have done would have been to get the complainer in the original case arrested for breach of the peace, or similar.

[AtW]

The main reason military folk is advised not to wear uniform in public places because of risk of being targeted by terrorists...

[SueEllen]

It seems to have been based on somebody compaining on a previous occasion with a different RAF bod.

The news stated someone in "military uniform" so I thought it was the army as RAF and Navy personnel tend to be better behaved.

[TykeMerc]

The news stated someone in "military uniform" so I thought it was the army as RAF and Navy personnel tend to be better behaved.

So you've never spent any time in Portsmouth, Aldershot, Plymouth, Catterick, Hereford, Poole, or much of the South West then?

[SpontaneousOrder]

The main reason military folk is advised not to wear uniform in public places because of risk of being targeted by terrorists...

That used to be the case when I was inside. It was strictly disallowed unless you were on your way to or from work and then you were supposed to cover up with a coat or jacket.

Then when people started dying in Afghanistan they changed the rules bouy up some nationalistic fervour.

I personally find it distasteful. But I don't really give a tulip.

[NickFitz]

The main reason military folk is advised not to wear uniform in public places because of risk of being targeted by terrorists...

He was in uniform because he'd been injured while on duty. I don't think it's really practical for him to pause and get changed when he's got an eye injury.

It sounds like somebody had previously had a go at a person in uniform, so a member of hospital staff asked him if he'd prefer to wait inside the department instead of sitting out in the waiting room with the riffraff. It seems to me the idea was to avoid putting him in a position where morons might have a pop at him, not to avoid offending anybody else.

It certainly doesn't sound like he was being "hidden away" as A&E departments tend to be busy places with people coming and going constantly. But I don't suppose "staff try to ensure patient doesn't get hassled by morons" would make for such a good story.

[AtW]

The news stated someone in "military uniform" so I thought it was the army as RAF and Navy personnel tend to be better behaved.

You mean sailors who got back from 9 month patrol in their submarine?

[Scruff]

I have been in service, my late father too. When he had a detached retina, event though he had cleared out of the military 50 years prior, they sorted him out. I have had to use the military medial corps too, though within service.This was in South Africa, having both served in two different armies.

I am amazed that "we" don't support those who defend our Nation with the same fervour that the Yanks do.

[NickFitz]

I am amazed that "we" don't support those who defend our Nation with the same fervour that the Yanks do.

They could be supported by, for example, hospital staff inviting them to sit in a place where they won't be harassed by the small number of people who dislike them, rather than leaving them in the waiting room.

Oh, wait, a hospital just tried that and got a load of abuse from idiots for its trouble. Back to the drawing board…

[AtW]

They could be supported by, for example, hospital staff inviting them to sit in a place where they won't be harassed by the small number of people who dislike them, rather than leaving them in the waiting room.

Or maybe hospital staff could invite that small number of people who dislike them to use NHS services provided by some 3rd world countries, which this country would have become without strong armed forces?