Pointless SH/WSOp Pay Change
I think that is a disgrace that people are looking at changing the WSOp pay scales again, having just been passed by a very expensive and time consuming SDSR.
It seems that the old ALM pay scale was only put up to the higher pay band in line with the AEOps due to the fact that they could be called upon to be a SAR Winchman Paramedic, hence fulfilling the technical/educational criteria.
With the upcoming demise of RAF SAR it seems that the argument they used to move pay scales is no longer relevant.
Although SH is more of a manual job it is ridiculous to penalise them when they do more on deployed ops than the rest of the RAF. I don't know if it is fair now they are all WSOPs to stream them into different jobs on different pay scales.
Even with the immanent withdrawal from Afghanistan, surly we are too far down WSOp line of change to undo this for future recruits, by "bean stealer's" working in "town".