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Well said. Only movers on mobile duties receive this crew pay and that does not include the officers or the WO on the training staff. The case goes back some years now to when the RAF element of the JHSUs were receiving helicopter crew pay (for parity as the army element already were). This again primarily came about as a result of the task in the Falklands where the 'hookers' were scheduled with a crew on a daily basis. Back at Lyneham the mobile element were still primarily samsonite soldiers doing a lot of flying and an attempt was made to claim crew pay not that they thought they would have much success. Surprise surprise they got it but do they still deserve it is another question. You are quite right to say that it's not the movers fault that the GE's don't get it full time. What happened there was that as we all know their tech skills are unsurpassed but their admin skills were lacking and they worded their claim to state that they would only earn crew pay when they actually flew.....
Maybe's they should resubmit the argument. As for the bighead who started this I suspect he is not a mover and is just making mischief. He hasn't even got the courage by the way to receive e-mails - I've tried.
By the way you shouldn't hate Base Movers - they're just misunderstood!