Originally Posted by
kaikohe76
As I mentioned earlier, surely the new CAS must put a stop, to the almost constant closing of active RAF airfields. In my opinion, for many years the voice of the RAF has not been heard nearly enough & lags well behind the other two services. As a young man or woman looking at a career in the armed forces, which one would be at the top of your list? So sad that the RAF is not the service I remember & was proud to have been a member of for quite some time.
Why? If you don’t have the units, staff or equipment for them that what do you want or need those redundant airfields for?
And don’t forget, from June this year onwards, the RAF is only going to get even smaller as aircraft and capabilities are retired without replacement, squadrons are disbanded and deliveries of new equipment are delayed and pushed to the right, training seems to go on failing to add to the front line, retention withers and recruitment stagnates.
And you want more airfields?