Originally Posted by Bismark
BHR,
You seem to be way off track. The FAA is alive and well. Whilst VA Johns may be Rear Adm FAA there is a 1* in the Fleet HQ who is Commodore FAA as his full time job.
Joint Force harrier and Joint Helicopter Command are as they say on the box - Joint forces, answerable to VCDS. The people in them still come under their own Service for Full command. 800 Naval Air Squadron stood up on Friday as 801 will later in the year. The RAF have lost 2 squadrons in the process - what is more joint than that! In JHC I do not think the RAF SH Sqns see themselves as any less RAF than before any more than the Junglies do.
I seem to recall that the results of the cuts a couple of years ago that scythed through the RAF and hacked at the AAC, left the FAA alone because it proved itself to be lean, efficient and effective. And I do believe that the Merlin is being upgraded and the Lynx replaced with a new version - what happened to SH?????
And I do not see much of a vacuum at Yeovilton when I drive past.
Fly Navy, Fly Fleet Air Arm
Well said that man The Fleet air Arm has an illistrious Past and Great future ahead of it