Originally Posted by
glum
Sadly it's seen as descriminatory, and since I have no powers of punishment, cannot issue anything more than words to assist in 'personal developement'.
I find this concept risible. Summary discipline at unit level, always under the constant review of superiors, is the very keystone of military discipline. Take that away and you are no longer an effective military force, but part of a huge faceless bureaucratic soulless machine with the attendant low morale so apparent today. As to the removing of powers of command from NCOs and JOs ending discrimination, it would seem that said discrimination moves inexorably up the Chain of Command, witness the outrageous and flagrant discrimination against two Chinook pilots by two Air Marshals, not only in contravention of accepted RAF procedure, but then repeated and compounded by one of them on National Television! When Paxman describes what you say as "arrogant" you have surely attained a plane of uniquely unacceptable behaviour!
If anyone in power in the RAF truly cares about its immediate future, they must attend to lancing this boil now. Waiting for a change of Government, CAS, or their own retirement will be too late. Sort this now or go down with the ship. Meltdown has begun!