Discrimination and Prejudice alive and well in the RAF
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Discrimination and Prejudice alive and well in the RAF
The following email was recently leaked to the Press, and highlights the disgusting and inexcusable prejudice that still festers in the RAF. What have 'White Males' done to deserve this? If I was a serving White Male pilot (I am an 'ex' one), I would be so disillusioned with the RAF's opinion of me as being unworthy of representing the Organization that I fight for.
I copied the email from LinkedIn, but it can be found on myriad sites. No reply from CAS though...
Truly Shameful.
I copied the email from LinkedIn, but it can be found on myriad sites. No reply from CAS though...
Truly Shameful.
The following email was recently leaked to the Press, and highlights the disgusting and inexcusable prejudice that still festers in the RAF. What have 'White Males' done to deserve this? If I was a serving White Male pilot (I am an 'ex' one), I would be so disillusioned with the RAF's opinion of me as being unworthy of representing the Organization that I fight for.
I copied the email from LinkedIn, but it can be found on myriad sites. No reply from CAS though...
Truly Shameful.
I copied the email from LinkedIn, but it can be found on myriad sites. No reply from CAS though...
Truly Shameful.
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Sigh, still using Pilots as the face of the RAF when it is a team effort..
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Pilots … it was ever thus. That’s all The Public know. Whenever I say I was in the RAF, the immediate response is “Were you a Pilot?” … and the lights dim when I say “No”. Now I don’t even mention my irrelevant 30 years of commissioned service: I just enjoy the Pension, as does my Admin (Sec) OH.
As for the Tweet … V.O.M.I.T. 🤮
As for the Tweet … V.O.M.I.T. 🤮
Baldeep. Indeed. This is the racist sexist coddswallop those serving have to put up with. Did a whole day of listening to some idiot from High Wycombe the other day, implying that white males were the root of all evil, whilst letting loose that she had joined the airforce under fraudulent terms and was gaining a comission without undertaking any oficer training.
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I'm surprised that even Wiggy the Woke would allow some claptrap like that to appear in print. Sarah, you need to tell the 'Air Media and Communications Project Manager' that such nonsense simply won't wash.
Even though I'm long out of the Service, I came across this woke 'inclusivity' rubbish recently from an Air Officer. I should have told him of the words of a senior officer many years ago "I don't go along with this pathetic political correctness - in my day we just wanted to join the RAF to fly green aeroplanes which kill people!".
Anyone volunteering to be the 'RAF face' for Top Gun: Maverick (do get the title correct!) would surely never live it down afterwards!
Even though I'm long out of the Service, I came across this woke 'inclusivity' rubbish recently from an Air Officer. I should have told him of the words of a senior officer many years ago "I don't go along with this pathetic political correctness - in my day we just wanted to join the RAF to fly green aeroplanes which kill people!".
Anyone volunteering to be the 'RAF face' for Top Gun: Maverick (do get the title correct!) would surely never live it down afterwards!
I'm surprised that even Wiggy the Woke would allow some claptrap like that to appear in print. Sarah, you need to tell the 'Air Media and Communications Project Manager' that such nonsense simply won't wash.
Even though I'm long out of the Service, I came across this woke 'inclusivity' rubbish recently from an Air Officer. I should have told him of the words of a senior officer many years ago "I don't go along with this pathetic political correctness - in my day we just wanted to join the RAF to fly green aeroplanes which kill people!".
Anyone volunteering to be the 'RAF face' for Top Gun: Maverick (do get the title correct!) would surely never live it down afterwards!
Even though I'm long out of the Service, I came across this woke 'inclusivity' rubbish recently from an Air Officer. I should have told him of the words of a senior officer many years ago "I don't go along with this pathetic political correctness - in my day we just wanted to join the RAF to fly green aeroplanes which kill people!".
Anyone volunteering to be the 'RAF face' for Top Gun: Maverick (do get the title correct!) would surely never live it down afterwards!
My view.
Whilst I pray the email is a wind-up I find it as unsurprising as it is unpleasant.
There’s not really much else to say.
Nutloose, whilst I hear where you’re coming from with your ‘one team, one fight’ viewpoint I think, for a Topgun related event, I’m sure even you must concede that a pilot (RN vs RAF debate aside) is probably required.
BV
There’s not really much else to say.
Nutloose, whilst I hear where you’re coming from with your ‘one team, one fight’ viewpoint I think, for a Topgun related event, I’m sure even you must concede that a pilot (RN vs RAF debate aside) is probably required.
BV
57 years ago, a friend appeared as a pilot in the advertisement: " A week in the life of ????? - RAF pilot" - he still gets reminded of it.
Any person tempted to apply for the latest rubbish should think again - if white was selected, they would never live it down and if they are of a different hue, would also find themselves embarrassed. Perhaps a cardboard mockup of aircrew of different colour and gender would actually show the 'Sarah' to find another job! Silly arse!
Old Duffer
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Any person tempted to apply for the latest rubbish should think again - if white was selected, they would never live it down and if they are of a different hue, would also find themselves embarrassed. Perhaps a cardboard mockup of aircrew of different colour and gender would actually show the 'Sarah' to find another job! Silly arse!
Old Duffer
(White , straight male, unreconstructed and no idea what pronouns are (GCE 'O' level english failed))
At first I thought it was a wind-up ... alas FZjr, a serving officer, reports that the operational base where he is is well beyond the 'u-bend'. The Goon Show would have a field day. 
