Severance
The current EngO training course (Engineer Specialist Training) is perfectly adequate, but that's the problem, its adequate, that's all even though it is closely validated and amended when feasible; the various powers that be have decided, quite rightly, that the course needs to change in order to train our future JEngOs to the training performance standard required in the 21st Century RAF. So, from 31 July 2006 there will be much more emphasis on work down the hangar with the Jags (even CE folks will continue to do some of this) and more emphasis than now on deployed ops training with better scenarios for both the CE and AS students. I won't waffle further so as to avoid boring all and sundry. I hope dhurst isn't put off, I wouldn't be if I was starting out now (but I'm rapidly approaching the other end of the pipe, so to speak!) go for it!