Female aircrew - limitations on where they can serve?
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Female aircrew - limitations on where they can serve?
Serious question - as daughter #2 is part way through an application to join the Dark Blue as aircrew. Can the ladies serve on 847?
AA, I don't know of a reason why not, 847 have had quite a few female techs. 845/46 have had female Pilots in the past.
Obviously your daughter has very good taste in A/C and will hopefully be flying the "Queen of the sky"........
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Airborne,
all the limits on where females can serve have now been removed apart from a very specific list of jobs (can't find it, but sure it's on the MOD site somewhere, as there was a survey on it done recently).
Basically, everything apart from the armoured corps, the infantry regiments (actual troops on ground), Raf Reg and the CDOs (again troops on ground) are open to females. IIRC even the CDO artillery etc is open to women now? Anyone comment on that?
all the limits on where females can serve have now been removed apart from a very specific list of jobs (can't find it, but sure it's on the MOD site somewhere, as there was a survey on it done recently).
Basically, everything apart from the armoured corps, the infantry regiments (actual troops on ground), Raf Reg and the CDOs (again troops on ground) are open to females. IIRC even the CDO artillery etc is open to women now? Anyone comment on that?
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Basically, everything apart from the armoured corps, the infantry regiments (actual troops on ground), Raf Reg and the CDOs (again troops on ground) are open to females. IIRC even the CDO artillery etc is open to women now? Anyone comment on that?
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AA,
Tradition my ar@e, my grandfather and my father both had rickets, piles and pleurisy but doesn't mean to say that my kids and I should endure the same
I suggest a visit to the NSPCC web site for you chap as I am sure what you are encouraging your lovely daughter to commit comes under the cruelty heading
Tradition my ar@e, my grandfather and my father both had rickets, piles and pleurisy but doesn't mean to say that my kids and I should endure the same
I suggest a visit to the NSPCC web site for you chap as I am sure what you are encouraging your lovely daughter to commit comes under the cruelty heading
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SFP - I'm telling the world she wants to follow in the family footsteps, but the truth is a bit more believable - her young man (a year older) wants to join as RN aircrew, so she's following him, so she can keep tabs on him I guess!
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Only a very very very patient one! Took 2000 years for the priest to turn around and face the audience.
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AA, is that the quaint RN tradition of calling everything on land what it equates to on a ship so that no-one gets confused or the one where you sit down for the loyal toast to avoid bumping your head on the low beams?
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AA, is that the quaint RN tradition of calling everything on land what it equates to on a ship so that no-one gets confused or the one where you sit down for the loyal toast to avoid bumping your head on the low beams?
- there are others too, but this is a family show 
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