Postman Plod,
We are agreed that the uniform and rank structure should stay. My view is that the rank structure should be different, along with the cap badge, but all the rest should be much as is the case now. I have still not heard a case for the commission being an essential requirement to do the job. There is no part of the ATC that will fall by the watyside if the VR(T) was to go and be replaced with uniformed adult leaders along the lines of the pre war ADCC. Still call them officers if you like. Let them and the cadets salute each other if you like. I would even salute their seniors (but out of common courtesy and not because I had to)
This is the whole point. As a cadet organisation, why should their officers have an implied power over our airmen which is displayed by the fact that VR(T) officers wear the same uniform and rank as the "real" RAF. It is a little more than saluting and calling people "Sir"