EPA86
For years the RAF has been very reluctant to let its technical staff get a civil maintenance licence, mis information was rife both about obtaining and maintaining a maintenance licence.
I can remember lending a techie my British airways licence course notes ( and a copy of the crewrooms question bank ) as no help whatsoever was forthcoming from inside the RAF.
To find that the RAF must now put these guys on a course to get a part 66 licence would seem like a reversal of years of custom & practice.
But it will end in tears for the RAF if they fail to reward those who have worked to get the licence with the market pay rate.