New Command?

[Climebear]

Due to cutbacks, the light is no longer funded...

Would that be the light that used to be at the end of the tunnel?

[JessTheDog]

The Army has a Land Command and the Adjutant-General, the Navy has a Fleet with a CinC, now the RAF has an Air Command.

Will the personnel and training branches of all 3 Services be merged into a single tri-Service "Command" or - more likely - a lucrative private sector personnel management and training contract?

[Pontius Navigator]

Jess, if you trawl back

Now it has been announced in Parliament, cascaded down to the RAF News, I wonder when it will be mentioned on the Strike website. Well at least one of the website url does refer to AIR rather than STRIKE so someone knows.


PS, I wonder what abbreviation they will use?

HQ AC = Air Cadets
and no doubt others.

I also recall my primary school -
If Army is to Land and Air Force is to Air what is Navy?
And if Johny said Fleet he would have been classified as mentally subnormal.
I'll get me umbrella

[BluntedAtBirth]

I also recall my primary school -
If Army is to Land and Air Force is to Air what is Navy?

Why Water Command, naturally. To align with the RAF's EAW concept, the deployable Fleet Support Groups (is that the right name?) that stand up at foreign ports to support RN deployments will become Expeditionary Water Wings...

[Green Flash]

Blunted

Naughty

[merlinxx]

BluntedAtBirth

Should that not be "Extended Bladder (Allied Colostomy Command) Expeditionary Force Air"

[Pontius Navigator]

Little bird told me they haven't decided on a name yet. AHQ is one possibility although HQ AIR has some consonance with HQ LAND.

Same bird told me that their airships didn't want it to happen this soon. They wanted 1 Apr 08. Maybe it would have given some an extra 12 months employment. OTOH they may have been worried that they had too much CHQ headed paper in the store.

[BEagle]

"They wanted 1 Apr 08."

Presumably because, by its 90th anniversary, the RAF will have become small enough to revert to the title of Royal Flying Corps? Although with rather less aircraft and rather more brass hats?

[spectre150]

Can we last another 11 years to see Trenchard's 100 year experiment through to its conclusion............

[Data-Lynx]

AIR or Air Command

While some of us watch in amazement as paperwork bickers about CinC Air Command or AIR Command, a quick Google on the short-form "CAC" offered a nugget from the USMC. Para 1.1.4 defines a CAC and notes:

Since CACs change periodically, refer to the IMAP website for the latest. The Refuse Collection and Recycling Template may accommodate different cost models such as the Installation Process Model (IPM) used by the Marine Corps.

It includes the cost of collection of refuse and garbage including vehicle operators salaries and operation of central can-washing plants, the cost of operation of refuse and garbage incinerators, sanitary fill, burning pits, grinders and the cost of maintenance of refuse and garbage containers. It also includes the cost of services purchased from others including private companies, other Government agencies and other naval installations. It excludes the maintenance and operating costs (including fuel) of vehicular transportation equipment whether Government or Contractor owned except where such costs cannot be separately identified. Family housing costs will be charged to CAC.

Is this what PMA did?

[Gainesy]

Isn't the unofficial motto of the USMC "Taking Out the Trash"?

[Wader2]

Now there's a funny thing.

Air Command was established on 1 Apr. On 3 Apr an Organisation Memeo was issued. CinC STC would become CinC Air Command and would have 2 3* deputy.

And the funny thing?

The memo has just been withdrawn!