Serving in HM Forces harms post mil career chances.
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Chugalug,
How right you are ! This nonsense about the European Union having "Kept the peace in Europe these last 70 years" has been peddled regularly for two decades and more.
Peace has been kept by NATO, and that means American power (although we used to be able to lend a hand) - and we'd better not forget it !
How dispiriting it is to have to revisit the years leading up to WWII, when the League of Nations (remember them?) was going to keep us safe from any more wars. Then as now, apart from a few prescient people like Churchill, (who was derided as a "warmonger" for his pains), most behaved like Lenin's "Useful Idiots" and closed their eyes to what was coming.
It's true, a nation that forgets its history will be condemmed to relive it.
Danny42C.
How right you are ! This nonsense about the European Union having "Kept the peace in Europe these last 70 years" has been peddled regularly for two decades and more.
Peace has been kept by NATO, and that means American power (although we used to be able to lend a hand) - and we'd better not forget it !
How dispiriting it is to have to revisit the years leading up to WWII, when the League of Nations (remember them?) was going to keep us safe from any more wars. Then as now, apart from a few prescient people like Churchill, (who was derided as a "warmonger" for his pains), most behaved like Lenin's "Useful Idiots" and closed their eyes to what was coming.
It's true, a nation that forgets its history will be condemmed to relive it.
Danny42C.
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It's what you make it
Having been a civvy for twice as long as I was in the RAF I still find that I call on my experience from that time. I have had several jobs and currently enjoy a very senior position in aviation in Asia (non flying, I have to work for a living!!) I believe that it all comes down to the individual and their desire and willingness to adapt and adopt to their new environment, wherever that may be. I do have one complaint, why does every exiting serviceman think that having a string of letters after their name will make them more employable? In my experience they are largely meaningless and do not enhance the opportunity for employment.
Danny thanks for your endorsement, as ever! 
Lest we be accused of thread drift, I think the point is that HM Forces are constantly aware of the threat of war, for answering that threat is their raison d'etre. Those who do not or have not served tend not to, and indeed may see such preoccupation as a threat in itself.
Only those who have left Service life in favour of a civilian one will know of the culture shock that entails. It is a far off land of which HMF know little. They are however famously flexible and need to use every inch of that skill set in adapting to this brave new world, including a job. What doesn't happen is that it will adapt to you.
Sillyporep, glad to hear that you made the transition OK. Not sure about the string of letters thing though. Are you saying that I shouldn't have added "GSM and bar" after my name?
Lest we be accused of thread drift, I think the point is that HM Forces are constantly aware of the threat of war, for answering that threat is their raison d'etre. Those who do not or have not served tend not to, and indeed may see such preoccupation as a threat in itself.
Only those who have left Service life in favour of a civilian one will know of the culture shock that entails. It is a far off land of which HMF know little. They are however famously flexible and need to use every inch of that skill set in adapting to this brave new world, including a job. What doesn't happen is that it will adapt to you.
Sillyporep, glad to hear that you made the transition OK. Not sure about the string of letters thing though. Are you saying that I shouldn't have added "GSM and bar" after my name?
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Not at all, earned and deserved. Sadly it won't mean anything to an employer.
I was referring to the phenomenon present among recently ex servicemen that have CV's listing themselves as MBIM, MILM, AMIPS, etc. Really, every employer I know, including myself, completely ignore them as pretty worthless when it comes to deciding who to interview.
I was referring to the phenomenon present among recently ex servicemen that have CV's listing themselves as MBIM, MILM, AMIPS, etc. Really, every employer I know, including myself, completely ignore them as pretty worthless when it comes to deciding who to interview.
