No more ACs, LACs, and SACs....
It passed me by, but I see that, back in July, the RAF renamed LAC and SAC as Air Specialist Class 2 or 1 respectively. What utter nonsense, and presumably done to rid the world of those horrible terms ‘aircraftman’ and ‘aircraftwoman’ that so offended no one, ever. More Wigston wokery…
It passed me by, but I see that, back in July, the RAF renamed LAC and SAC as Air Specialist Class 2 or 1 respectively. What utter nonsense, and presumably done to rid the world of those horrible terms ‘aircraftman’ and ‘aircraftwoman’ that so offended no one, ever. More Wigston wokery…
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I'll bite. Aviator is for everyone in the RAF, Gunner is still just for the RAF Regiment. Just as before, you would speak of RAF Regiment Gunners not RAF Regiment Airmen, it's still RAF Regiment Gunners not RAF Regiment Aviators. Even though we're all Aviators in the RAF :-)
Actually, out of everything going on at the moment this bothers me least. My dad was an AC1 and AC2 during the war so AS1 and 2 is not that revolutionary. “Aviators” on the other hand……
LAC/SAC & LACWSACW are gender correct terms. Since there are only two genders in the human race, ie. the gender you were born with.
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
LAC/SAC & LACWSACW are gender correct terms. Since there are only two genders in the human race, ie. the gender you were born with.
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
LAC/SAC & LACWSACW are gender correct terms. Since there are only two genders in the human race, ie. the gender you were born with.
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
Human beings are not like some fish, amphibians and some other animals who can change gender at will.
We are born male or female and cannot change. No matter what some will tell you!
Would you not agree?
The language changes all the time - no point in getting all upset about it.
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or SACM and SACF for male and female and SACT for transitioning etc. with (T) to signify technical. So that would be Senior Aircrafts Man and Senior Aircrafts Female
The other would have been to simply drop the terms Senior Aircraftsman and simply change the designation to SAC without it being short for or meaning anything else.
But we have been over this before.
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Good God man! As soon as I've done up my puttees and drawn out the Mess Webley, I'll be dashing off a signal to the chaps at Bentley Priory and stop this malarkey in its tracks.
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A question then...what is the correct term for addressing a female SWO? (Waddington have recently appointed one). I wouldn't want to call her "Mister", and Mrs doesn't sound right. Is it now Ms (mzz)?
The funny thing about gender is prior to death there are Woman, Man, Non-Binary, Gender Queer, Gender Fluid, Transgender. However, after a serious accident, and there are a clatter of bits to identify, they only find Men and Women! 
Surely, some mishtake…
Surely, some mishtake…
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Shades of Officer Harvey!
However, the question is a bloody good one ............... the army must have solved it surely?
[And dare I wonder if female SWOs in general self-identify as something or other or other]
Nice to know that my hypothesis is correct: I am the only sane person around, and I might just be a figment of someone's imagination.
However, the question is a bloody good one ............... the army must have solved it surely?
[And dare I wonder if female SWOs in general self-identify as something or other or other]
Nice to know that my hypothesis is correct: I am the only sane person around, and I might just be a figment of someone's imagination.
Gender is irrelevant until you book your fitness test.