Myra,
The vast majority of engineers I have had the privilege of working with are also dedicated and professional to the extreme. In my post I never suggested 84 would be a bad place to work - certainly not if you fly. I asked a question which you chose not to answer - "Front Line First" where does the buck stop? When your pool of dedicated professionals dries up in X number of years, 84Sqn and the MOD are going to get royally fleeced when the contract price rises. Then I suppose we'll get some shoddy Far Eastern sweatshop subcontractor to do the job. Who picks up the eng secondary duties? Everyone else (military) on stn I suppose.
We have just had the AFBLT come round our patch talking about retention measures. Taking away one of the best foreign eng postings going - is that smart retention? People are entitled to express their concerns on this forum, so if you don't like reading about genuine concerns then read
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