DK,
I'm not flt ops but I have to take exception to your last post. Whilst you are correct that career prospects in the branch are still developing at the moment, much of the disgruntled feeling has been borne out of the initial recruitment drive over inflating the career/ promotion prospects in the first place. The truth is that Flt Ops Officers are, and always have been, in direct competition with the other 5 specialisations in the Ops Supp branch and have been penalised somewhat by the fact that even the system does not know what it wants the Flt Ops Officers to do. Ergo, how can a training package to properly prepare these individuals for their profesion be created? This has been identified and approval for a TNA on Flt Ops training is soon to be conducted. There is also no denying that the specialisation was established with no staff/policy foundations to steer it properly as it developed. This, I can assure you, is being rectified, albeit slowly and in relation to the budget allocated.
As for your comment regarding the SNCOs who despise and think they know more than the JOs, I challenge you to name a branch where this is not the case! For the record I am an ALM!!
