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Just This Once...
Leadership and resources are pivotal but the team finds itself operating from a derelict airfield, hosted by a non-flying station commander, operating the equipment of yesteryear with ground crew that arrive with little or no Hawk experience and overseen and tasked by a convoluted command-chain. Who leads RAFAT... is it the AoC who is the sole arbiter and decision maker for public displays, or the Team Leader, or OC RAFAT, or the team members with their hire/reject social and personality veto during selection, or all those in the AoC's leadership chain with an ill-defined role, the MoD and RAF
PR teams or those that actually hold all the support purse-strings?
Wasn't the introduction of OC RAFAT meant to bring a semblance of 'normality' to the leadership chain for the Red Arrows?