He He Canberra, not bad I say if thats all in 23 years. I take it you were eternally poisoned by the fact that when you were a Cpl Scope Dopes were more highly prized and rewarded with a whole payband above what the TG9 ATC branch was. It was amazing how many times that TG9 wanted to merge with TG12 (scopies) because you all thought that they were basically doing the same job.....Oh how the tune has changed eh Basically someone thought that scopies were worth more than AATC's, this is also borne out by the fact that scopies were
1) Not offered redundancy with the drawdowns.
2) Civvies are not allowed to do their job.
After Sep 11th it is quite amazing how high profile the AD world has become with the masters up on the hill.
And as ex TG12 I could recall many times the lack of communication between the Tower, Wg ops and the Ops desk at Squadrons...." is c/s a/b" Wg Ops "No"........Phone Squadron to check delay "He's a/b".........phone Wg ops "squadron say he is a/b" Wg ops "standby...(phones squadron)... he's a/b" Sod it phone Tower and ask if he has got a/b somebody has got to know!!! Tower "phone Wg Ops"....chasing my tail.
And Canberra if you had to tell the FM then the FA and then the MC then something was wrong with your info as that is the command chain working fine...the one above thinks the one below has got something wrong and so quite rightly checks it....now if the info was wrong in the first place??????