Originally Posted by
MPN11
2017 will see the emergence of the new Air Operations Branch, encompassing ATC and FC. The Battlespace Management Force HQ should stand up this month,
AFAIK.
The Flying Prevention Branch will become a subset
Casting my mind a long way back to when I was at school and leafing through glossy brochures from the various Branches, I seem to recall FC had a hierarchy that went something like Weapons Ctrl - Identification (IDO -Surveillance now) - SAM Ctrl if you couldn't do either of the others. Will such a hierarchy of competence exist in the new Branch? And if so, what does that do for morale of those in the perceived 'bottom set'? Or, recognising that people blossom at different times and rates (arguably one of the reasons people get chopped, they just pick things up at a slower rate rather than not being able to pick it up at all), will people be able to move between sub-specialisations?