Originally Posted by
downsizer
Made up, pointless job. Like command WOs, and Group WOs. And like SWOs to be fair.
Permit please a civvy with many many years served alongside the RAF on many many airfields.
I disagree about the lack of value of SWOs. I have met a goodly number, usually not in the line of duty, but in the peripheral, secondary or tertiary duties. Nobody but nobody is in a better position to act as enabler, standardiser, confessor, exemplar. An example was Mr Smith at RAF Nicosia c. 1962,. Immaculate [he changed into fresh KD after lunch], all-seeing, fatherly and fierce. My National Service airmen loved him and feared him, which is as it should be.
Subsequently my advice to young Met. folk was to keep on the right side of: Staish, OC Ops or Flying, the SWO, WO MT Section and the Mess WO.