BBC coverage of RAF 100 years
The women 'promoted' during these PR jazz fests are overwhelmingly presented as half (and sometimes more) of the WWII workforce. It is a false image, but one that suits modern MOD PR guff.
And men form the huge majority of aircrew because we are biologically suited to it.
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What is it with all the lanyards? Just about everyone at Lossie was wearing one. Everytime we had cut backs in the 70's and 80's, the old joke would come up, "with all the cuts, we could save money on ID cards, as everyone would know everyone else".
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Training Risky,
Women currently occupy the roles of:
Monarch
Prime Minister
Home Secretary
President of the Supreme Court
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
add
Head of the Crown Prosecution Service
It will not be long before one is appointed CAS.
Women currently occupy the roles of:
Monarch
Prime Minister
Home Secretary
President of the Supreme Court
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
add
Head of the Crown Prosecution Service
It will not be long before one is appointed CAS.
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I enjoyed it and I was especially pleased with the inclusion of Lord Trenchard's Apprentice scheme - one of the two bedrocks of the early RAF.
Join your local Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club. Our Welwyn-Hatfield Branch are having a "Wear Blue for the RAF" breakfast on this Sunday morning's regular meeting. We'll still have all the usual inter-service banter of course. One can expect nothing less.
As for the rest of the UK armed forces, there is a tradition of not showing any respect for any of the other services to their faces, specifically when the public are present. However it is only a tradition because we have such a great respect for the other services in the UK, and we are engaging in a topic known as "banter".
Monarch (Hereditary)
Prime Minister (No sane man wanted to do it during Brexit. Also, she is RUBBISH!)
Home Secretary (Quota filling, she is also ineffective)
President of the Supreme Court (Quota filling, and a big fan of 'positive discrimination')
Metropolitan Police Commissioner (Quota filling, even after mangling up the Stockwell shooting)
Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (Don't even get me started...just read the rape mistrial cases)
CAS/CGS/1SL? (Only if a woman puts the hard yards in over 40 years and competes on merit.)
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Commandant of the College, Air Commodore Chris Luck said: “I hope that many of the young women who attended will be inspired to join the RAF and perhaps one of them will one day rise to become the Chief of the Air Staff.”
Also not as a volunteer but tasked.
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It wouldn't be new. In the Book 'Fall of Fortresses' by Elmer Bendiner he mentioned the waist gunners that bailed out as they crossed the Dutch coast.
Can't blame them. Standing by an open hatch getting shot at.
Can't blame them. Standing by an open hatch getting shot at.
TTN, Roving, and Training Risky, thanks for your comments on my ambiguity on the ATA perspective. They are accurate, pertinent and highlight the importance of gender and allied elements of the RAF. But these discussions are a red herring to the program and deserve a thread of their own. I was not referring to the gender or importance of the ATA, but on the fact that in a program of limited time and large subject matter, that a non-RAF element was given enough prominence when so many large swathes of RAF elements were ignored.
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I had quite a jolt when it showed the old workshops at Halton.
As for general PCness I thought it was quite twaddle free for a beeb programme. No LGBT or race issues shoehorned in.
Good to see the Squippers featured (if only as background). That Typhoon kits moved on since I worked on the EF2000 development kit.
As for general PCness I thought it was quite twaddle free for a beeb programme. No LGBT or race issues shoehorned in.
Good to see the Squippers featured (if only as background). That Typhoon kits moved on since I worked on the EF2000 development kit.