The RAF Factor!!!!!! Have you got it?
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The RAF Factor!!!!!! Have you got it?
Is this for real? We are making trainee Pilots redundant, scrapping vital aircraft, cutting allowances, closing bases, so to improve morale they have decided to have a f@c***g singing contest?
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Whose fantastic idea was this?? What is wrong with organising an Officers Mess summer ball to get promoted?
Don't we have a No Fly Zone to organise? Oh that's right we haven't got any sodding aircraft left.
About RAF Factor
Whose fantastic idea was this?? What is wrong with organising an Officers Mess summer ball to get promoted?
Don't we have a No Fly Zone to organise? Oh that's right we haven't got any sodding aircraft left.
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So RAF Kinloss is going to host a heat of this abortion is it? Genius, pure genius. I'm so pleased my Superior Officer hasn't roped me in to help. The shame would be unbearable. To all those whose Boss 'encourages' them to be involved: Don't.
It is for a good cause, and probably organised by someone who means well.
That said, given the current poor state of morale, I think a talent show called 'The RAF Factor' will be poorly recieved. However, it does have possiblities:
Act 1 - Knifethrowers. Co-Workers [as we are now known] turn their backs as their senior officer launches a series of sharp blades whilst blindfolded.
Act 2 - The Magician. Makes various things disappear - HDT, Allowances, jobs & morale etc.
Act 3 - The Juggler. An SAC attempts to answer phones, do a RAFFT, sweep the hangar and clear snow off the runway, in addition to guarding prisoners and his own primary duty.
Act 4 - The Clowns. A joint High Wycombe and MOD team.
Act 5 - The Strong Man. A genuine and well meaning Flt Lt attempts to pick morale off the floor.
Act 6 - The Lion Tamer. As the lions have all either been leaned, made redundant or PVR'd, this years act will substitute donkeys.
That said, given the current poor state of morale, I think a talent show called 'The RAF Factor' will be poorly recieved. However, it does have possiblities:
Act 1 - Knifethrowers. Co-Workers [as we are now known] turn their backs as their senior officer launches a series of sharp blades whilst blindfolded.
Act 2 - The Magician. Makes various things disappear - HDT, Allowances, jobs & morale etc.
Act 3 - The Juggler. An SAC attempts to answer phones, do a RAFFT, sweep the hangar and clear snow off the runway, in addition to guarding prisoners and his own primary duty.
Act 4 - The Clowns. A joint High Wycombe and MOD team.
Act 5 - The Strong Man. A genuine and well meaning Flt Lt attempts to pick morale off the floor.
Act 6 - The Lion Tamer. As the lions have all either been leaned, made redundant or PVR'd, this years act will substitute donkeys.
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And now, with perfect timing....
a survey from our Masters arrives asking me how satisfied I am with the quality of life within the RAF. Timing is everything!!! Pity they haven't got it.
Who will provide the flying part?
Oh, and the colours on the initials are in the wrong sequence. They've got the French one. Ours should be Red, White and Blue from the left.
FB
Oh, and the colours on the initials are in the wrong sequence. They've got the French one. Ours should be Red, White and Blue from the left.
FB
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Calm down everyone... its for charity... Dont blame someone trying to do something good for the state of the military budget crisis. If you want to blame someone for that, two names spring to mind, Bliar and Clown.
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Get with the programme, this is pprune! Membership restricted to miserable, self-flagellating cynics who think they've seen it all and done it all. No enthusiasm for any positive ideas allowed (a view particularly expressed by those who have already left).
Get a grip, you lot. The cuts maybe crap but there are still plenty of people left in the Mob who haven't given up!
Get with the programme, this is pprune! Membership restricted to miserable, self-flagellating cynics who think they've seen it all and done it all. No enthusiasm for any positive ideas allowed (a view particularly expressed by those who have already left).
Get a grip, you lot. The cuts maybe crap but there are still plenty of people left in the Mob who haven't given up!
What fun!
.......
Melchett: I'm going to have a concert party to boost the men's morale.
George: A concert party, well, hurrah!
Melchett: You fancy an evening at a concert party, Blackadder?
Edmund: Well frankly sir, I'd rather spend an evening on top of a stepladder in No Man's Land smoking cigarettes through an illuminous balaclava.
George: A concert party, well, hurrah!
Melchett: You fancy an evening at a concert party, Blackadder?
Edmund: Well frankly sir, I'd rather spend an evening on top of a stepladder in No Man's Land smoking cigarettes through an illuminous balaclava.
Ours should be Red, White and Blue from the left
Not quite true - ours are red, white and blue front to back on both sides.
Sorry, it's a slow morning...
TOTD
The AP on how to be an officer in the RAF published in 1923 gives details of how do the various tasks related to the job. Along with how many camels you have to hire to move a Sqn and how to rig a DH9, it also suggests that to stop the other ranks sticking their privates into unsuitable women and catching nasty diseases, one should distract them by organising concert parties.
It's history repeating itself!
It's history repeating itself!
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Get a grip, you lot. The cuts maybe crap but there are still plenty of people left in the Mob who haven't given up!