There is so much here that I had no idea about, Zivah. Thanks for enlightening us all. We hear(d) so much in the media about 'don't ask, don't tell' in the US military, but I must admit I had never even thought about what the status was in the UK. Despite having a cousin who was in the RAF for 20 years, although we have never spoken much, and he's not the kind of person to talk about such matters anyway.