teeteringhead wrote:
And we should not forget that the original idea of UASs was NOT as a recruitment tool - if you wanted to join for a career you went to Cranwell.
Until around 1968, when it was decided that more officers needed to have had university education. So the UAS scheme expanded to cope. Some of us had to do a year as Flt Cdts before departing for university; when we returned a few years later, it was clear that Cranwell simply wasn't the same any more. But the legacy of our UAS time meant, for pilots, a shorter JP course - although there was still some marching around on the parade ground to be done, which rather interfered with our flying training progress....
There was also some secondary modern place in Bedfordshire, I gather.
Regrettably, the excellent UAS scheme I knew both as a student and years later as a QFI has now been utterly destroyed.