Originally Posted by
Lima Juliet
With a 10 week passing out cycle for ORs and a 24 week cycle for officers then very few parades will coincide.
While the length of courses may differ there is actually an IOT Graduation Parade approx every 10 weeks due to the 8 week terms and 2 week gap between. I understand that one of the aspirations under Project Portal is for an element of joint training (e.g. joint militarisation phase) in addition to joint graduations becoming the norm.
Originally Posted by
Lima Juliet
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Also, the constant drive to put everyone up in a Holiday Inn and feed them in a Happy Eater further erodes the pride - look at Daedalus, roughly a tenth the age of York House and already showing it. You only need to look at what has been done at Bicester, Bentley Priory and Woolwich to see how our old infrastructure can be brought up to date but retain its character The RAF is a unique brand, a brand that people aspire to, and we should protect certain ethos, artefacts and methods as it is what makes us what we are and what others aspire to be.
I also understand that one of the options being looked at when RTS does eventually come to Cranwell is for Daedalus to be a Joint Phase 1 Training Mess.