Can Wigston survive the onslaught?
L-B ,can you explain your #421..?
Yes it was an attempt at a light hearted rebuke for mis-speeeling my favourite soldiers, the
Brigade of Gurkhas
In retrospect it was rather rude, for which I apologise.
He’s certainly brought the RAF into disrepute, which for anyone else would be cause for disciplinary action. History will judge him for his misguidance and illegal actions. He’s already been judged by those way down the food chain who had to follow him.
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Sad, because when we retire we would all wish to be well spoken of.
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Sorry LB, but I have zero respect for that man. We all like to poke fun at the commissioned end of the RAF, but I witnessed some amazing talent over my time, which makes it even more mind boggling that such an insipid, hollow and vacuous individual was promoted to that role and allowed to instigate so much damage without being stopped.
Rather like Berger is destroying Uncle Sam's Misguided Children
More evidence of a system (ie. systemic) which discriminated against race (racial discrimination)…
https://news.sky.com/story/raf-recru...rgets-12893684
Let’s hope the other miscreants blindly supporting Wokeston are also shown the door as he leaves on Friday (or shortly thereafter). This is a total disgrace and those in the RAF that have encouraged this dreadful racism should be prosecuted under the Equality Act of 2010. As payments have been clearly offered to those affected then it is surely an admission of guilt.
https://news.sky.com/story/raf-recru...rgets-12893684
Let’s hope the other miscreants blindly supporting Wokeston are also shown the door as he leaves on Friday (or shortly thereafter). This is a total disgrace and those in the RAF that have encouraged this dreadful racism should be prosecuted under the Equality Act of 2010. As payments have been clearly offered to those affected then it is surely an admission of guilt.
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He probably has done more to destroy the moral of the RAF than the Luftwaffe ever did..
https://news.sky.com/story/confidenc...veals-12894492
Confidence in the head of the Royal Air Force and his leadership team has halved in the past two years to its lowest-ever level and aviators are at their least happy since records began, a survey has revealed.
The Ministry of Defence's continuous attitude survey of military personnel across the three armed services - a key benchmark of morale - found a mere 18% of aviators had confidence in the senior leadership of the RAF in 2023, sharply down from 36% in 2021.
Barely a quarter (26%) of those surveyed felt the senior leadership team - led by Air Chief Marshal Wigston - was keen to listen to feedback, while a feeble 15% felt their top bosses understood the impact of changes in the RAF on personnel.
"While attitudes towards RAF senior leaders rose in 2021, they have fallen markedly in the last two years to their lowest reported levels," the survey said.
This question has been asked annually since 2015.
Barely a quarter (26%) of those surveyed felt the senior leadership team - led by Air Chief Marshal Wigston - was keen to listen to feedback, while a feeble 15% felt their top bosses understood the impact of changes in the RAF on personnel.
"While attitudes towards RAF senior leaders rose in 2021, they have fallen markedly in the last two years to their lowest reported levels," the survey said.
This question has been asked annually since 2015.
As a result of these decreases, RAF personnel are now the least positive about their senior leaders compared to the other services."
Overall satisfaction with life in the RAF plummeted nine percentage points to 37% from a year ago - its lowest level since this question was first asked in 2007.
"RAF personnel feel less proud (71%), less engaged (57%) and less valued (26%), according to the findings.
Overall satisfaction with life in the RAF plummeted nine percentage points to 37% from a year ago - its lowest level since this question was first asked in 2007.
"RAF personnel feel less proud (71%), less engaged (57%) and less valued (26%), according to the findings.
https://news.sky.com/story/confidenc...veals-12894492
Sorry LB, but I have zero respect for that man. We all like to poke fun at the commissioned end of the RAF, but I witnessed some amazing talent over my time, which makes it even more mind boggling that such an insipid, hollow and vacuous individual was promoted to that role and allowed to instigate so much damage without being stopped.
FB
If this scandal started and stopped with ACM Wigston it would be of some comfort. Sadly it didn't. It is what happens to any military after prolonged periods of peace, by which I mean without major or World Wars. Instead of leaders being brought to the high command out of necessity, career seekers bring themselves, often with some agenda or other but always with a single minded determination to make it at the cost of everyone else. Shortcuts, bullying, and downright lies achieve what the lack of leadership cannot. The cost is invariably paid by subordinates, usually at one star or below. Hence these unfortunate male candidates who never made it to IOC, but even more tragically those who died in avoidable air accidents because the mandated airworthiness regulations were subverted and suborned on the orders of other VSOs from the Star Chamber.
The cost in blood and treasure is scandal enough, but it pales in the future cost of trying (and failing?) to gain Air Superiority from a rival hostile air power with a lack of airworthiness riddling our Air Fleets. Someone suggested a future engineer CAS, which would be a great start. Whatever race, creed, or sexual classification of future air crew, it will be of secondary importance to the lack of airworthiness suffered by our aircraft.
The leadership of the Royal Air Force has utterly failed the Service and the Nation. Reform is urgent. It should start with the removal of Air Regulation and Accident Investigation from the maw of the MOD/RAF (and each other). Only then can the long journey to reform commence.
The cost in blood and treasure is scandal enough, but it pales in the future cost of trying (and failing?) to gain Air Superiority from a rival hostile air power with a lack of airworthiness riddling our Air Fleets. Someone suggested a future engineer CAS, which would be a great start. Whatever race, creed, or sexual classification of future air crew, it will be of secondary importance to the lack of airworthiness suffered by our aircraft.
The leadership of the Royal Air Force has utterly failed the Service and the Nation. Reform is urgent. It should start with the removal of Air Regulation and Accident Investigation from the maw of the MOD/RAF (and each other). Only then can the long journey to reform commence.
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