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Old 4th Nov 2004, 10:00
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Room 101

you know the idea, "the worst thing in the world" ends up in Room 101 - you own personal hell.

well..

thinking about the current state of military aviation, what would go in your room 101? For starters, here's our choices:

1. Merlin stores support
2. Composite Tail Rotor Hubs
3. A certain small factory just outside Yeovil
4. The Political Correctness brigade

Can anyone do better?

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1. Equal Opportunities awareness training.
2. New Labour hypocrites who send their children to fee-paying schools.
3. New Labour in general.
4. Anything to do with the JAA
5. £400+ fee for Class 1 medicals
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The Eurofighter project
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Is that room EH101?
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.... or squeaky 101 sqn squealing in rm 101?.... earning a VC while flying a VC to fight the VC in VT.

Excuse me now, the nurse is calling...
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Private Finance Initiatives

A certain Group Captain

Anyone who "Hears what you say"

Management Initiatives

Hoon

Blair

.....and the mad vegetarians on bicycles who impose such stupidly low speed limits in Oxfordshire!
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the phrase "Plan for success, manage failure"

...would be good if the success:failure ratio was biased in favour of success...
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by BEagle: .....and the mad vegetarians on bicycles who impose such stupidly low speed limits in Oxfordshire!
and the A420 used to be such a nice road. 50mph - honestly!
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Senior orficers who spend more time in HQ covering their @rse and licking other ****s/having it licked, than out in the field finding out what the troops are doing.
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1. Aircrew Retention Bonus
2. Brevet's for Non - Aircrew (FC)
3. The phrase 'WE NOW KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING' that we hear at every brief on the future of the RAF
4. MOD Procurement procedures
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I'm guessing the Canadians will probably throw the Cormorant in now their tail rotors are starting to crack.
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1) Right-wing, conservative, fascist military b*stards who hate/have a go at/don’t understand anyone or anything that’s slightly different from the norm. (Most of the military)
2) Americans for not ‘wanting to vote against their Commander-in-Chief during a war’ – if he’s doing a rubbish job then get someone better. Tenuous link- but hey!
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The f***ing stupid new car parking system at Brize with its crappy coloured passes leaving the downroute aircrew parking miles from ops and filling the carpark with hirecars. Which w***er will get promoted from that f***king stupid idea. Oh and not forgetting about not publicising the resurfacing of said carparks in time/properly leaving deployed aircrew cars to be removed by a contractor and a bill of £80 passed. And as for the idea of colured carpasses! Don't worry there's only 550 aircrew/groundcrew between 3 sqns to get into 130 spaces now. F***ing commissioned moverknob.

Glad I got that off my chest. Thanks for the thread idea
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A country where parents can get locked up for their children playing truant, but a school can authorise a termination without telling the parents!

Bullsh** buzzwords...seamlessly, overarching, underpinning!

A Service who spends more money on policy than they do on their troops! Pound for Pound, Person for Person etc

DHE

DHE

Oh did I mention DHE?
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Commanders(at many levels) who are MINDFULL of subordinate's reservations concerning a given course of action when said course of action is UNAVOIDABLE(latest military parlance for totally avoidable if planned for in the correct manner)...



ALWAYS assume NEVER check
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I was thinking that Honesty, Integrity and Trust might be good candidates, but on reflection, Bliar, Straw, Buffoon and Campbell have already beaten me to it!!

Love Many, Trust a Few, Always paddle your own canoe!
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Anyone 'who thinks outside of the box'

Paper hand towels in loos. What are they all about, I've never managed to get a whole one out of the dispenser.

Shoe laces

Bleeding heart liberals

...the list could go on
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The problem with "thinking outside the box" is that when too many people do it, there aren't enough people left thinking inside it!

Call me a bluff old traditionalist ("you're a bluff old traditionalist"), but if people were a little less preoccupied with what happens outside the box and looked after the basics, we wouldn't have many of the punk decisions made that result in the screwed up "blue sky" initiatives of Airships/Politicians/bureaucrats.......
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Draws breath....rant on....


'U Need 2 Know' (Actually, just throw in any DCC propaganda)

'Performance Indicators' (Particularly the 'traffic light system' where we spend more time figuring out how well/how badly we are doing than we do actually completing the task)

Tier 1 Deployed Accomodation i.e. 18' x 24' tents, non-aircon, flaps open at both ends, single skinned, designed in the 50's, still in bl@@dy use in the 00's......let's just go and buy the US Deployable kit...please?

Anything to do with IRT/IDT/CCS/Emerg IRT where the Regiment seem to believe that poking a bayonet into a pile of sand trying to find mines is part of our primary function and not a load of old b****cks/empire building/trying to turn the rest of the RAF into gunners.


If we are supposed to be lean and ready to go anywhere, any time...lets cut the extraneous cr@p and get back to doing the important things!

Rant off


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