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Unless the mists of time have finally taken my senses away from arriving at Bzn in Jan 75 as a lowly LAC till today Admin Wg etc etc have never formally worked at weekends at any unit I have ever been posted to.
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Just because Admin wing did not work weekends doesn't mean it wasn't classed as working days. The old leave passes also had boxes for the 48 hr pass. You were officially required to apply for a 48 hr pass for any weekend you would not be at camp. In practise you only ever did this when you where taking other leave. As most sections just allowed personnel to go home at weekends the 48 hr pass passed into history.
Each section was still required to achieve 67% manning within 2 hrs of a station recall. These days they would be hard pushed to meet that requirement.
Each section was still required to achieve 67% manning within 2 hrs of a station recall. These days they would be hard pushed to meet that requirement.
I guess it was about 12 years ago that the leave system changed? Before then, trying to take a long weekend invariably meant losing days of leave.
The new system of 'Not Required for Duty', or whatever it was called, suited me perfectly as it meant that I could travel abroad for a weekend without losing leave. Travel to the airport on Friday, arrive Friday evening, then 2 complete days abroad before flying back on Monday morning using only 2 days leave instead of 4. I did that at least 15 times after the system changed before I left and flying with 'buzz' from Stansted made it very affordable. But that coincided with a period when operational deployments were relatively few....
Admin Wg at BZN not working at weekends? I certainly saw them working late into the night on occasions and at the weekends when the situation so required.
The new system of 'Not Required for Duty', or whatever it was called, suited me perfectly as it meant that I could travel abroad for a weekend without losing leave. Travel to the airport on Friday, arrive Friday evening, then 2 complete days abroad before flying back on Monday morning using only 2 days leave instead of 4. I did that at least 15 times after the system changed before I left and flying with 'buzz' from Stansted made it very affordable. But that coincided with a period when operational deployments were relatively few....
Admin Wg at BZN not working at weekends? I certainly saw them working late into the night on occasions and at the weekends when the situation so required.
