vordmeister - 12:34 pm on Jul 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

Couple of things that should be made clear -

The free forum hosting site Proboards is not (so far as I am aware) funded from the British defence budget. In fact I believe it is based in the US and also hosts 3 million other forums, some of which might not be UK service associations.

The the website you viewed is built and maintained by volunteers - it is one of many associations that supports ex-service people and helps them keep in touch.

So it seems a bit unfair to lay all that on them.