Originally Posted by
vecvechookattack
why do you need to be an Officer to forecast the Met? Would a WO be able to do it? We have some WO and some Chief Petty Officers doing the forecasting and so why then employ Lt Cdrs ?
MOD Police..... Good god how many of them do we have? What do they do all day?
More straight thinking from our favourite fish head.
The RAF only has commissioned Met Officers and non-commissioned observers in overseas theatres when it is desirable that they are under military discipline. Why commissioned? Because that is their equivalent civil service grade D, C or higher. If you dropped them a grade to E you would have to do the same across the entire civil service. Pay is low enough as it is so they need D or C grades to attract them.
MOD Police? First they have greater powers than Servicemen, and many civpol too, and they are part of the scheme to reduce the guarding committment foisted on to misemployed Servicemen.