Originally Posted by
m0nkfish
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.
In the early 1980s I did a refresher Jet Provost course at Linton On Ouse.
My abiding memory of my time there is a very big sign which read:
The role of the RAF is to fly aeroplanes.
The role of those of us who do not fly is to support those who do.
I guess times have changed.