Taff Missed
In days of old............
The RAF training covered all aspects of a particular trade; A-Tech-A, A-Tech-P etc, as you could be expected to be posted to any environment covering all aspects of one discipline, be it first line maintenance, third line maintenance or component overhaul facility. So the RAF training prepared you for and gave you an insighte to every environment. Most of the blokes I work with are either ex-RAF or civie trained. But with the ex-RAF blokes, most of them picked up some of the finer points of their sister trades before they came out, be it a Sumpie changing a wheel or blocking a few rivets, or a Rigger helping to pull an engine out.
So come on now, how many ex-RAF types do you know that were single trade techies are now dual licenced civie techies? If you make a good rigger then it is only a matter of a little study for you to make a good sumpie as well.