It makes me sad to read this. I nearly got in in ī93. Glad now that I didnīt.
It seems a stark contrast between the picture you paint here and the one I see at work every day. New equipment, more resources, building work going on, new hires arriving, place expanding. Yes you go through pains but they at least they are growing pains. Iīve got a career path, decent progressions, no complaints pay, no non-flying duties unless you want them... And all this is just in the training world.
What a terrible waste of a service and a tradition. The day I heard the RAF had bought into IIP I knew things were terminal.
Glumly,
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