Do you not think that if the RAF trained their Engineers to be Pt 66 compliant and gave them a Licence ... we wouldn't see them for dust?
Yeah - it's a problem isn't it! And yet it's MOD policy to ensure full accreditation of skills and knowledge that have an equivalence in the civilian world. Apparently it's retention positive.
Perhaps that's all the more reason for the RAF to have different terms of service than the Army and RN. That way we can compete with the civilian world to retain the people we need.