'We' as in the Royal we or 'We' as in them in the portacabin across the A343?
If it’s the Royal 'we', we don’t have a problem with acknowledging other AI trades and quite rightly hope they get the recognition deserved. The latter may have a bit of catching up to do though. Crikey, 'The Corps' quite often fails to realise what century we are in so throwing all these new fangled quals into the pot is just going to confuse them.
One would like to hope we reward those who show potential for the technical side of things as opposed to what you consider to be 'traditional way'. Maybe that’s the problem? We still run the Corps as if it’s an extension of the Royal Artillery as opposed to recognising that most jobs within the Corps (ground and air) have become incredibly technocentric. That in itself does not mean we lose out on quality leadership and management as the 'traditional' methods would provide. We have far too many clever chaps and chapesses who become disenchanted at the lack of recognition of their skills and technical prowess. Why are so many going light and dark blue? What are we not offering them?
Why are the AI posts gapped? Why are people not going for these trades?
As you will be aware, we have plenty of people who are over promoted for the 'right reasons'.
On a completely unrelated subject, why do we have automatic promotion for some officers?