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[Mosspigs]

Dear Mr Pink,

Thank you for your reply, which I have to say is perhaps the most offensive I have seen on PPrune.

Allow me to answer your questions which you may wish to cross check against my thread.

My thread states that I am presently mil, not ex, I don’t know it all, but am working in the training environment. My thread also states that I have chosen to leave the mil due to perhaps the latter reason you gave albeit rather agriculturally. It does however come after 12 years service, early promotion, several op tours and numerous good friends being killed. I am not scared to fight and think such a libellous comment may want to be removed. Furthermore, I would say that recruiting loyal Officers is not the problem, as we are all loyal when we join. As one grows up however, one wants stability for ones family. Hardly a crime and considering you have a child and made mention (in another thread) to not seeing her if at a front line squadron, you may agree!

Onto your questions:

On the face of your thread there doesn’t seem too much wrong with it and if the error comes from terminology, then I see the errors of your English. However, as a UAS student, being let loose with the controls of a Hawk is perhaps a little bit of an exaggeration. You may have had the pleasure of some QFI non graded glorified pleasure flights but that is about as far as it goes.

Secondly potential RAF direct entry pilots attend EFT post Initial Officer Training at Cranwell, which comes after successful Officer Aircrew Selection. It seems strange to me that the RAF would spend 67 hours of EFT on someone who wasn’t even checked out as having the gumption to be an Officer. Thirdly, if you had completed UAS, you would not qualify for EFT as a direct entrant as the RAF opted out of EFT many moons ago. Presently, and I am guessing from your age and the dates mentioned in your thread that you would still fall into the present system; you would go straight to Linton to commence Basic Fast Jet Training after IOT. Fourthly, OASC scores are valid for 5 years. Therefore you should not have had to take them again.

So unless you are a non grad who went through the UNIVERSITY air squadron and you said sponsorship, not scholarship and then did EFT as a civilian and then failed the test that you had passed previously, then I can’t figure out how you can be son of Tom Cruise.

Lastly, ask yourself this question. If two of the three services turned you down (one didn’t even want to know you), for lacking the required metal to be an Officer, what right do you think you have to question the moral courage, integrity and loyalty of someone who was selected and successfully completed what you could not?

Kind Regards
Mosspigs

p.s. should you wish to rubbish me further, may I ask that you PM me.