The Queen, who attended with the Duke of Edinburgh, featured with Daniel Craig as James Bond at London 2012 - when she appeared to parachute from a helicopter.
About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually whena nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.
Those rules include steps to take back executive benefits or compensation when appropriate and to insure that no one can walk away with a golden parachute while taxpayer money is at risk.
The only other British soldier to be awarded the VC for bravery in Afghanistan was Corporal Bryan Budd, 29, of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, who was killed when he single-handedly stormed a Taliban position in Sangin in August 2006.