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As an ex member (and must of been for staying so long) I believe the biggest problem with the AAC is the jelousy and resentment.
This is caused by the honestly recruited, ambitious, of slightly higher aptittude than infantry types, and very keen young lads who join direct to the AAC.
Once these lads have failed their selection for aircrew and resigned themselves to a career an the ground, they adopt the "soldier first" attitude to hind behind and use this in their quick promotional careers to hit back at the flying side of the AAC.
Unfortunatley there are quite a few well positioned groundies within the AAC who continuously defend their soldier first policy and pull the AAC backwards.
This has resulted in the attitude of training first as this allows ambitious types to be quickly promoted due to courses attended and plan their careers around less work and clean uniforms.
It is true the AAC is a boil on the side of the Army budget but surly the support is there and I personaly know there are lots of aircrew types forced to fly desks to get this off the groung.
Time for everbody in the AAC to pull together rather than apart and produce a package that can be deemed as a reason to exist as apposed to guards, secondry duties, BFT, APWT, NBC, exercises and endless re inventing the wheel because the guys that learnt the lessons on the last exercise have left or managed to avoid the exercise due to weak management.
Sorry, needed that after reading all this cra* about who should, who could and all that.
Get out there and fly...
At the moment when an aircraft takes off on a sortie it still requires a pilot.
If you aint one, tough, get a life and realise your worth.
This is caused by the honestly recruited, ambitious, of slightly higher aptittude than infantry types, and very keen young lads who join direct to the AAC.
Once these lads have failed their selection for aircrew and resigned themselves to a career an the ground, they adopt the "soldier first" attitude to hind behind and use this in their quick promotional careers to hit back at the flying side of the AAC.
Unfortunatley there are quite a few well positioned groundies within the AAC who continuously defend their soldier first policy and pull the AAC backwards.
This has resulted in the attitude of training first as this allows ambitious types to be quickly promoted due to courses attended and plan their careers around less work and clean uniforms.
It is true the AAC is a boil on the side of the Army budget but surly the support is there and I personaly know there are lots of aircrew types forced to fly desks to get this off the groung.
Time for everbody in the AAC to pull together rather than apart and produce a package that can be deemed as a reason to exist as apposed to guards, secondry duties, BFT, APWT, NBC, exercises and endless re inventing the wheel because the guys that learnt the lessons on the last exercise have left or managed to avoid the exercise due to weak management.
Sorry, needed that after reading all this cra* about who should, who could and all that.
Get out there and fly...
At the moment when an aircraft takes off on a sortie it still requires a pilot.
If you aint one, tough, get a life and realise your worth.
Join Date: May 2002
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Biffer is absolutely right - sorry to see things haven't changed.
I 'retired' in 1968 and at that time the biggest hinderence to progress were those clowns who had failed either Para or SAS selection or failed aircrew selection at Biggin Hill and then spent the rest of their careers calling the successful ones 'elitist'!
I 'retired' in 1968 and at that time the biggest hinderence to progress were those clowns who had failed either Para or SAS selection or failed aircrew selection at Biggin Hill and then spent the rest of their careers calling the successful ones 'elitist'!
