Originally Posted by
Melchett01
He doesn’t - isn’t Brize now run by an Engineer? Didn’t the previous CAS also pointedly ask which other organisations chose their CEO on the basis of their hand-eye coordination when they were 18? Times are a changing. Some things for the better, others not necessarily so - have you seen how the Admin Branch has basically been turned into a bunch of call centre operators?!
But if we are now shifting towards genuinely putting the right people in to senior jobs for the right reasons other than a safe pair of hands, surely that’s a good thing?
Is it a good thing? Why does it need a second Group Captain the run the flying side, surely a Wing Commander as in o/c ops can and has held that position in the past for decades, a Station Commander should be promoted on merit to post regardless of his trade, to put a Group Captain under him to run ops smacks of overmanning in that rank and surely can cause problems within a stations structure if you have two that do not get on. It seems an expensive alternative at a time of shrinking budgets to satisfy jobs for the boys, it also must reduce the chances for Wing Commanders to prove themselves in post and further their careers.