Currently serving?

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

With only a few weeks left to go to civilian life I just wondered if there were any other currently serving folk posting in here :ok:

Civilians please dont respond and lets see if military folk can keep this thread at the top.............................................:ok::ok:

[salad-dodger]

why


?

[zedder]

Yes, but I've only got a few weeks to go as well!

[StopStart]

Yup but also counting down :}

[AllTrimDoubt]

1007 days...

[Hovermonkey]

1256 and counting

[Scuttled]

5657.

Is it just me and Hovermonkey left then?

[JliderPilot]

200 (and a bit) days to go for me but trying to extend a little bit...

Overall have enjoyed serving but time for pastures new, before I become a grumpy old bugger:O

[lj101]

Still living the dream

[Ed Winchester]

Still digging the escape tunnel.

[LoeyDaFrog]

406 days left (and it can't come quick enough).

[Chicken Leg]

What type of responses are you expecting from your post?

If you're leaving, just leave. If you're expecting a fanfare, you might be disappointed to learn that the military world won't fall apart in your absence.

And neither will the RAF!

[TurbineTooHot]

I think the thrust of the thread is: "Do we have many serving RAF/FAA/AAC etc posters on PPRuNe?"

I've got plenty time yet to serve, and am currently not pi$$ed off with the service in any way.

Hope that helps the research. ;)

[Mad_Mark]

I've got plenty time yet to serve, and am currently not pi$$ed off with the service in any way.
In that case you are either a relative newbie looking at the Monkey Tree through rose-tinted spectacles or you are towards the top of the tree and can't see WTF everyone else is seeing :eek:

MadMark!!! :mad:

[MFC_Fly]

Still serving, but being one of MM's "everyone else" I am waiting to see what 12 June brings.

MFC

[Capt Niff Naff]

52 days to go and then I won't be able to post here anymore!
CNN

[sisemen]

you might be disappointed to learn that the military world won't fall apart in your absence.

And neither will the RAF!

Are you putting money on that?

Maybe my tinted specs have become a little more rosy since I left in 93 but it seems very much like the RAF is well on its way to falling apart in my absence :}

[C130 Techie]

12499 days done. (34 and a bit years)

1182 days to do. (3 and a bit years)

Still relatively happy with my lot.

Joined a very big outfit. Will be leaving a very small one!

[fin1012]

about 4 years left and wondering if I can make it without either going mad or losing it with a superior......

[Lima Juliet]

Just done 8,030 days in the Regulars and I'm now a full-time reservist with up to 7,300 days to go - with a bit of flying thrown in as well (mil and civ reg). :ok:

I must say the commitment for my latter life suits far better as I get into my senior years!

LJ

[Sloppy Link]

About 845 days to go.

[recce_FAC]

Still in, a little less than 3 years to push and enjoying some well earned POTL. I hope civvie street is as much fun as I have had in the army.

[Toadstool]

9271 done, 4405 to do ish. I still love it, although it's not how it used to be. Pension in the bag, or what's left of it after the new pension scheme.

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

What type of responses are you expecting from your post?

If you're leaving, just leave. If you're expecting a fanfare, you might be disappointed to learn that the military world won't fall apart in your absence.

And neither will the RAF!

Was rather hoping that no civilians were going to muck the thread up :p:p:p

[TurbineTooHot]

MadMark,

Been in for over a decade and just been lucky to have had a good time of it. Flown a lot, onto my second FJ type, done several ops, what's not to like.....

[AED24]

Still serving, but like others on this thread, not for long, now into my last 6 months.

[StopStart]

Overall have enjoyed serving but time for pastures new, before I become a grumpy old bugger

Yeah, I left it just a fraction too long for that..... :}

If you're leaving, just leave. If you're expecting a fanfare, you might be disappointed to learn that the military world won't fall apart in your absence.

Well this is distressing. I'm devastated to hear there will be no day of mourning on my departure and that the military will continue on without me. Had assumed it would implode and become a desolate wasteland when I left. Perhaps a minute's silence and black armbands for the day is a little more realistic? :hmm:

[AARON O'DICKYDIDO]

Maybe my tinted specs have become a little more rosy since I left in 93 but ......

You were not supposed to comment on this as you are currently not serving!

Oh! neither am I. Ooops!!!!!

[Vortex_Generator]

13615 done.
222 to go.
Do I get a prize?

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Get some time in youth, but looks like we joined up not that far apart date wise :ok:

[Bob the Doc]

Joined Oct97
End of current commission May 16
But then I'm not a PP so perhaps I shouldn't be on PPRUNE at all?

[Tiger_mate]

Joined 1977
31 months left; wish it was days :rolleyes:
Pension optimised in 18 days :D
PAS Leg-iron to work the last day :{
The rest of my life :ok:

[ZOFO]

9490 down and 1113 to push, can't really say that I have not enjoyed it, but I think that 2012 is going to be a tough year on all of us in HM Forces. When I get to the 30 year point thats it for me, time to get out the pipe and slippers.

[Scuttled]

......(quiet voice)


I still like it most of the time. It's the people, the quality of the people, that make it worthwhile though. Apart from them, it's all a bit crap at the moment, but I think it will improve soon.

I hope it will anyhow. Are things better elsewhere.......?

[TonkaEngO]

I salute you all. 32 done with 3 to do. Good times have far outweighed the bad - which as a KPI makes me feel that all in all it has been a good decision.

[Not Long Here]

11503 RAF
2374 RNZAF
3104 left and not really counting - a far, far better place :}

[Jumping_Jack]

9490 done, 2555 to do. Still enjoy it (mostly) and like having a new challenge every couple of years on job change. Have seen many parts of the world and sometimes forget how lucky we are to be able to do that. Not all the places have been 'great' but all have been 'great experiences' (especially in hind sight!)

J_J

[Whenurhappy]

Into my 27th year (in two Forces) and after a last minue change of heart and the offer of another overseas posting to a cracking job, I'll have about another 5 years to Serve.* It's generally been great but being nibbled to death is getting a bit tiresome - and a bit hard on the pocket.


Challenge over the next few years is to find a civilian job that's as interesting...

* subject to redundancy, of course.

[jindabyne]

I wish that I had only a few days or weeks left to serve :uhoh:

[Gnd]

10900 done, 3700 to do - lets just hope the option is still available in 3000 days!!!!:sad:

[Mach Two]

I forgot to count. Sorry.

[Uncle Ginsters]

Either 394 days left currently

or up to 6964 days left if I take Manning's current PA carrot...

Decision, decisions...

[zedder]

Have you seen the pain Manning can cause with a carrot?:uhoh:

Don't forget their mantra of "We're not happy until you're not happy"

[ShortFatOne]

Zedder, If I don't make it for the TW p!ss-up, please pass on my warmest best wishes to all at ISK, Rgds, SFO

[zedder]

SFO,
No problem. Hope you'll make it back up here for a few beers some other time if you don't make it in a fortnight; you know me, always ready for Beer and round-table type Banter!

[high spirits]

Still in, no plans to leave... Until I see the new pension deal. I filled in the survey and was depressed by the leading questions.

Then I went flying, saw all those office bound losers stuck on the motorway and felt better about my lot.


PS the other similar thread smells of wee!

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

PS the other similar thread smells of wee!

Have you also noticed the paltry amount of time most of the bedwetters actualy managed :eek: 11 weeks and I will be one as well........won't see me in here tho :E

[Scuttled]

Play nicely. They've had their horlicks, nurse has tucked them in and turned off Uncle wifi. Start communicating again after 9.30am when they are all back in the day room, looking out of the big window and waiting for a family visit that isn't coming.

I'm going to be in trouble for this. Standing by.

[Farfrompuken]

5910 days in, 18 to go!

Feel like a part timer with some of those numbers mentioned!

[Echo 5]

Seldomfit,

11 weeks and I will be one as well........won't see me in here tho

You could post just the once to air your views on life on the other side of the fence. :)

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Seldomfit,



You could post just the once to air your views on life on the other side of the fence. :)

I could but the forum entrance criteria don't allow for such things :p:p:p

[alisoncc]

There used to be something called a Chuff Factor in places like Gan and Sharjah. It was days done divided by days to do. One's CF increased exponentially as one's departure date approached. Much better than raw numbers.

[Echo 5]

Seldomfit,


Military Aircrew A forum for the professionals who fly the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, Navy and Airforces of the World, all equally welcome here.

Perhaps the criteria should be rewritten thus,

Military Aircrew A forum for the retired professionals who flew the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would have left the ground. Serving members of the Army, Navy and Airforces of the World are all equally welcome here. :ok:

[teeteringhead]

SFFP

Have you also noticed the paltry amount of time most of the bedwetters actualy managed ... from other thread .... In as regular 13 944

Out (but working for MoD Agency) 850

Back as reservist 2 054 to date (hey - that's 16 000 days in uniform come Saturday!)
your point is ??

Teeters ( ... still wearing uniform so a foot in both camps?)

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

SFFP

... from other thread .... your point is ??

Teeters ( ... still wearing uniform so a foot in both camps?)

Baldrick humour Sir, nowt but Baldrick humour Sir :ok:

Edited to add I see it got a bit of a nibble :p:p:p

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Seldomfit,

Perhaps the criteria should be rewritten thus,

:ok:

3 pages of serving blokes posting, did surprise me I have to say :p

[andy148]

Recce FAC, I think you've had a few interesting jobs already! :E

Mind you i have to admit i had just as much fun with the blue brigade than i have had with uncle pusser! But ive still got my life sentence to serve still.....until traunch 3 comes along that is!