Originally Posted by
Krystal n chips
It is, but that's a recent development although for Armourers this was always the case. With their date of joining shown, several of the Circus back seaters would have come via the AMM > Tech route.
That said, the change was overdue. First, the AMM course was basic, very basic, and did them a disservice in many respects . However, the "well known rotary station " decided, that, whilst initially on their tour they would be liney's, and go on a deployment to Afghan, they also tried to give them a jolly as a further inducement, but, the neat bit was to get them involved in Depth, ok 2nd Line for those of a certain vintage, and as this is what they would eventually be doing, lo and behold....it worked !..so back they came...same for the trucking world more or less. This wasn't some hitherto unknown altruism from the RAF grown ups, more a realisation both parties benefitted.
The change to direct entrant made sense therefore, plus, it saved a few quid as well.
Back to how the
PR machine is going to handle the now very public issues with the Reds
Having nothing to do with the RAF in any engineering function whatsoever since 2008, I take it you have been involved with the contracted maintenance that manifested from the early 2000s (Did the lean project in a certain bay when HMF started to transform into the BAES empire). Moving aeroplanes about in bits is something civvy street never took on for some reason. I wonder why, but not the place of this thread. The
PR own goals will disappear when the press find another scandal more interesting to their backstabbing. Joe will forget it quickly.