Reported Pause in RAF White Recruiting To Meet Diversity Targets
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This was the letter in the Telegraph on Saturday:
He is planning to ditch the mandatory fitness test for “digital specialists” who do not have frontline combat roles (in which case, they should be civilians); the Red Arrows are two aircraft down due to a pilot being sacked and another resigning; the pilot- training pipeline is in crisis; and one of the top priorities of the RAF is to achieve its diversity targets (report, August 17).
All of this suggests that the RAF is not getting the military-style leadership it needs to focus on its ability to fight and win – which is what the public expect and pay for.
Rear Admiral Philip Mathias (retd)
Southsea, Hampshire
Seems a pretty fair summary to me. Sadly, I think Bill Wratten’s response a day or two later, completely missed the point.
RAF recruitment
SIR – The Chief of the Air Staff seems determined to expose the RAF to criticism and ridicule.He is planning to ditch the mandatory fitness test for “digital specialists” who do not have frontline combat roles (in which case, they should be civilians); the Red Arrows are two aircraft down due to a pilot being sacked and another resigning; the pilot- training pipeline is in crisis; and one of the top priorities of the RAF is to achieve its diversity targets (report, August 17).
All of this suggests that the RAF is not getting the military-style leadership it needs to focus on its ability to fight and win – which is what the public expect and pay for.
Rear Admiral Philip Mathias (retd)
Southsea, Hampshire
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Meanwhile, jobs (sort of) for the boys and (possibly) girls. How did we ever get by without them.
Air Commodore S A Harper OBE to be Regional Air Officer Southeast with effect from 20 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S N Perkins CBE to be Regional Air Officer Southwest with effect from 15 July 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore A M Sansom to be Regional Air Officer North England with effect from 16 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S A Harper OBE to be Regional Air Officer Southeast with effect from 20 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S N Perkins CBE to be Regional Air Officer Southwest with effect from 15 July 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore A M Sansom to be Regional Air Officer North England with effect from 16 September 2022. This is a new post.
Meanwhile, jobs (sort of) for the boys and (possibly) girls. How did we ever get by without them.
Air Commodore S A Harper OBE to be Regional Air Officer Southeast with effect from 20 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S N Perkins CBE to be Regional Air Officer Southwest with effect from 15 July 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore A M Sansom to be Regional Air Officer North England with effect from 16 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S A Harper OBE to be Regional Air Officer Southeast with effect from 20 September 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore S N Perkins CBE to be Regional Air Officer Southwest with effect from 15 July 2022. This is a new post.
Air Commodore A M Sansom to be Regional Air Officer North England with effect from 16 September 2022. This is a new post.
Honestly…you really ought to think these things through.
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Note it says North England as opposed to Southwest etc, is that to show Scotland is not included?
Do you think he has found this stuffed down the back of a drawer?
Do you think he has found this stuffed down the back of a drawer?
Map of UK showing WWII air defence sectors and airfields
Has anyone else noticed that the only senior officer with the balls to stand up against the recruitment clusterfcuk …is, wait for it…(‘gender specific wording’ warning here) ……...a WOMAN!
Ironic or what?
Ironic or what?
Not at all surprising.
If I had to name the ten finest colleagues/ bosses who I worked with/ for during my time in Met., women would fill 4 or 5 places, and this in an era when women were much in a minority at the sharper ends where I grew seaweed and studied my crystal balls.
If I had to name the ten finest colleagues/ bosses who I worked with/ for during my time in Met., women would fill 4 or 5 places, and this in an era when women were much in a minority at the sharper ends where I grew seaweed and studied my crystal balls.
Now be fair. With 1 Air Commodore for every 4 1/2 aircraft, they cannot all have proper jobs. They will be Wiggies disciples and they must therefore be given made up jobs at public expense…that is now the corporate soul of the RAF.
Honestly…you really ought to think these things through.
Honestly…you really ought to think these things through.
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Nutty, correct, because there already exists an Air Officer Scotland (as well as an Air Officer Northern Ireland and an Air Officer Wales) and has done for about 6 years. These posts are all part-time reservists and the point of them is to engage with the local community to both relieve the burden on over-stretched stn cdrs and also to cover those areas of the country where there is no longer an RAF presence.
Nutty, correct, because there already exists an Air Officer Scotland (as well as an Air Officer Northern Ireland and an Air Officer Wales) and has done for about 6 years. These posts are all part-time reservists and the point of them is to engage with the local community to both relieve the burden on over-stretched stn cdrs and also to cover those areas of the country where there is no longer an RAF presence.
Call me a bluff old traditionalist, I’d rather have a few more Stations and Sqns than a part time Air Rank reminding people of when we had an Air Force. I don’t think we’d struggle to employ said Stations and Sqns in the current circumstances.
But frankly it’s about what I’ve come to expect from the current crop. It’s very tempting, in my grandfather’s terminology, to refuse to soldier.
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No, he is transitioning.. I didn't know they did false legs in purple.. I wonder what a child of 5 thinks getting a doll with a false leg at Christmas. Surely toys are there to inspire children through play, unless that child is disabled, it seems a strange one to market, mind you we did have one legged pirate,s mee hearty's.