Originally Posted by
melmothtw
At the height of Afghanistan in about 2009/2010 I visited Odiham, and was told by the then Chinook Force Commander, Gp Capt Turner, that 80% of student pilots at Cranwell were requesting the Chinook.
They weren't alone.
When the RAF realised they were short of engineers, again !, and the AMM recruitment drive expanded, many had the aspiration to become a Chinook crewman, and many applied for Odiham as their first choice posting.
Odiham actually had a policy of treating their AMM''s very well, not just tyre kickers like the FJ world, because they wanted them back when they became techs.
This policy
worked .