Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Is anyone actually able to answer the question of whether we have, or are about to, run out of suitable white male volunteers? Are the current crop of white males actually useless and failing to make it through selection or flying training?
We keep hearing about how the RAF needs to select from a wider pool to ensure the best talent is identified and selected. Surely the best pool to select from is the ones who want to do it. Not the pool of people who have had to have their arms twisted.
I believe that there truly are some talented people out there who haven’t previously thought about joining the military and that they would be an asset to the organisation. But, in the meantime, why not just select those that want to join.
BV
Started to go downhill from a recruitment perspective when they went all woke with their adverts IMHO. Rubbish like ‘you don’t have to be a pilot to fly in the RAF’ with short clips of people chopping potatoes and laying out knives and forks. The RAF is about flying aircraft and the recruitment adverts should unashamedly put that front and centre with some stunning and exciting aerial footage showing all the absolutely amazing things you get to do with aircraft in the RAF you cannot so anywhere else.
The RAF barely puts any adverts out now, when they do they are boring, bland, woke nonsense.