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Old 13th Aug 2010, 16:53
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vernon99
 
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Lets just say from what I have seen, morale is at an all time low, and a lot of dedicated servicemen are almost happy to be leaving at the end of thier engagement. With it goes years of experience and knowledge, which will be very hard to replace. As it stands the RAF is doing a pretty good job of scrapping itself by treating it's troops so badly
This is the problem, assuming they "get rid" of the RAF, there will be a lot of those blue suits almost at the end of their engagements, presumably they will leave, no point doing some conversion course for 6 months if you only have 12 months remaining. Also as I and others have already said many will not want to go Army or fly Navy, presumably they will take redundancy.

So just how much manpower will be left after that? and what percentage of that manpower will be at all interested in doing other things green/dark blue?

IMO there will be very few skilled people left, all those with skills will go elsewhere.

What skills and experience will the Army and Navy have to fill the gap left by the demise of the RAF? How big a gap will there be before the remaining services can do all the jobs currently done by the RAF? How many accidents will occur due to senior management having no idea or simple skills shortages. Would you be happy to fly in an aircraft where the engineer who signs it off was on gate guard last night, and has not had proper rest?
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