Talking to a guy that is leaving the RAF shortly. He tells me that the RAF training is going down the pan fast, and that if you want promotion you will have to self study to ONC/HND level in your own time. So he recons, all the military want are people who can change engines, top up hudraulic systems ect. with no in depth knowlidge of how systems work. So what if there is a fault? Go to the relevant manual, replace the suggested item. Now how many of us out there have done exactly this, only to find that the fault still exists? But with an in depth knowlidge of how a system works, you can then look a little deeper to look at other possibilities. I also hear that there are some questions raised by the CAA into the relavence of the proposed training schemes, and that they may not be recognised by the CAA. So if you do your sentance under the new scheme, how are you going to successfully transfer from military to civil aviation maintenance?