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Old 21st Jul 2009, 13:21
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dctyke
 
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A small saving: Why don't we combine our 3 Airman Recruit training set-ups into one. We currently have recruit training for Airman Aircrew, RAF Regt and the 'the rest' at separate locations. When I was involved 10yrs ago it always irked me that they used an identical syllabus of training.

A bit of history: Up till the demise of the SLR rifle the RAF Regt were put through recruit training with other ground trades. As the RAF Regt got the new L85 rifle up to two years before everyone else it was rightly deemed necessary to not go through recruit training with the SLR then switch to the L85 for trade training so they subsequently switched their recruit training to the Regt depot. However when everyone else got the L85 they never switched back.
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