'chicks dig us guys think we're cool'
Careful, or you will give your ID away - A great course badge BTW
Tecchies do a great job in the RAF and will bend over backwards to get the airframe serviceable and on the next day's program and they are reasonably well payed to pot.
The majority of trades and branches in the RAF will also work equally as hard in support of Ops except maybe stackers and coppers but hey nuff said about that. A pilot friend once said:
'if you line up the rest of the airforce against a wall and shot between 10 and 15 a year - he wouldnt mind them getting extra pay'
Gash, egdg - grow up (A forum for the professionals who fly the non-civilian hardware)