Intersting thread, all I can add is that it’s horses for courses, you have a marvellous oportunity ahead of you and you should be proud at this point to have been selected for IOT, it’s no mean feat and the selectors must have seen something in you to pass you through selection. If you approach IOT with an open mind you may find you like it, if not you have only lost a short period of your young life and will at least come away with an experience that could serve you well in whatever other career you may choose. I wish you well in whatever you decide.
Pontius Navigator
Finally, unfavourable parts of the country; not many bases left so define unfavourable? Multies Wiltshire or Lincolnshire, maybe Scotland but less likely. FJ, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Scotland.
As you are/were a Directional Consultant I had to chuckle at the above statement from post # 4, I am sure that the residents of RAF Brize Norton will be enamoured to know that the borders have all changed
