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Reading post 80 and previous related ones, there is also the current climate which expects that cuts will gradually be reversed. But I'm sure there will be the usual brew of politics, inside and outside Parliament regarding that, under any circumstances.
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As 'predicted' on 3rd March...
BV, as usual, talks a lot of sense, but my problem with Knighton is not that he isn't aircrew, isn't an air power practitioner, nor that he has never had an operational command, but more that he seems unimpressive in his appearances before the HCDC, and smacks of having become the continuity candidate once Turner did his bike rack impersonation.
Whereas both Mayhew and Stringer have always impressed and always seemed immensely high calibre.
I hope I'm wrong.
BV, as usual, talks a lot of sense, but my problem with Knighton is not that he isn't aircrew, isn't an air power practitioner, nor that he has never had an operational command, but more that he seems unimpressive in his appearances before the HCDC, and smacks of having become the continuity candidate once Turner did his bike rack impersonation.
Whereas both Mayhew and Stringer have always impressed and always seemed immensely high calibre.
I hope I'm wrong.
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In The one I hear of daily it is pretty poor and given retention stats it’s not unique. If you think everything is great and CAS has done a bang up job then I am pleased for you. Others disagree and some of them have posted above and on a thread dedicated to ACM Wigston’s tenure.
[QUOTE=Union Jack;11411273]I wonder what Air Chief Marshal The Lord Peach thinks about a "non-pilot" becoming CAS.
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Why Jack, will it validate your thoughts if they’re similar to his?
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Why Jack, will it validate your thoughts if they’re similar to his?
Selecting the new CAS seems a bit like shifting the deckchairs on the titanic.
From afar it seems to me selecting even the perfect leader will not do a lot to increase the RAF’s fighting power and influence !
It all comes down to money -of which we don’t seem to have a lot to spare!
Suggest amalgamate our armed forces to reduce number of top heavy staff ,reduce costs ,stop infighting and improve liaison ?
Also Sandhurst could be turned into an immigration centre ! ( flippant !)
(I know that it didn’t work in Canada years ago but times have changed !)
From afar it seems to me selecting even the perfect leader will not do a lot to increase the RAF’s fighting power and influence !
It all comes down to money -of which we don’t seem to have a lot to spare!
Suggest amalgamate our armed forces to reduce number of top heavy staff ,reduce costs ,stop infighting and improve liaison ?
Also Sandhurst could be turned into an immigration centre ! ( flippant !)
(I know that it didn’t work in Canada years ago but times have changed !)
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Selecting the new CAS seems a bit like shifting the deckchairs on the titanic.
From afar it seems to me selecting even the perfect leader will not do a lot to increase the RAF’s fighting power and influence !
It all comes down to money -of which we don’t seem to have a lot to spare!
Suggest amalgamate our armed forces to reduce number of top heavy staff ,reduce costs ,stop infighting and improve liaison ?
Also Sandhurst could be turned into an immigration centre ! ( flippant !)
(I know that it didn’t work in Canada years ago but times have changed !)
From afar it seems to me selecting even the perfect leader will not do a lot to increase the RAF’s fighting power and influence !
It all comes down to money -of which we don’t seem to have a lot to spare!
Suggest amalgamate our armed forces to reduce number of top heavy staff ,reduce costs ,stop infighting and improve liaison ?
Also Sandhurst could be turned into an immigration centre ! ( flippant !)
(I know that it didn’t work in Canada years ago but times have changed !)
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Oh no, not that old line again, the Canadians have long since reversed the ill-advised purple uniform approach. Their naval personnel are back out of green and into blue and like wise the air force. I doesn't save money as much as excuses further defence cuts and contraction. Rishi Sunak, unlike Boris Johnson sees Ukraine as a far away squabble, for all his rhetoric. His masked slipped recently, and he very wrongly said all conflicts end in a negotiated settlement, and he expected this one to be resolved the same way. Our problem is we haven't got anyone in our entire political mainstream now who is at all exercised by concerns over foreign and defence affairs,
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As 'predicted' on 3rd March...
BV, as usual, talks a lot of sense, but my problem with Knighton is not that he isn't aircrew, isn't an air power practitioner, nor that he has never had an operational command, but more that he seems unimpressive in his appearances before the HCDC, and smacks of having become the continuity candidate once Turner did his bike rack impersonation.
Whereas both Mayhew and Stringer have always impressed and always seemed immensely high calibre.
I hope I'm wrong.
BV, as usual, talks a lot of sense, but my problem with Knighton is not that he isn't aircrew, isn't an air power practitioner, nor that he has never had an operational command, but more that he seems unimpressive in his appearances before the HCDC, and smacks of having become the continuity candidate once Turner did his bike rack impersonation.
Whereas both Mayhew and Stringer have always impressed and always seemed immensely high calibre.
I hope I'm wrong.
That the RAF will now be led by an Engineer must surely give us some hope that he at least understands airworthiness and can start the long and painful process of regaining it. The rot started at the top and the star chamber has to set its own house in order and stop using subordinates as sacrificial lambs to cover its own incompetence. It seems there has been a slight shift in policy there, whereby companies are wrongly blamed instead, if the prosecution by HSE of MBL is anything to go by. The RAF sabotaged an MBL ejection seat by issuing an illegal servicing instruction that lead to the death of a pilot. This is a scandal that cries out for reform and not drawing the wagons into ever tighter circles!
Or do the airworthiness related fatal accident threads simply get added to further?
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Amalgamate the forces- Oh no not that again !
Well we know that it will never happen as there are far too many comfortable jobs up top! (more Admirals than ships ). The new CAS will never vote himself out of a job.
BUT with only 158,000 men in uniform do we need such a top heavy 3 pronged system - With the 3 arms fighting over a very small pie.
Inter service squabbles contributed to binning the Harrier early and buying 2 carriers which some think are very expensive luxuries!
Amalgamate the forces- Oh no not that again !
Well we know that it will never happen as there are far too many comfortable jobs up top! (more Admirals than ships ). The new CAS will never vote himself out of a job.
BUT with only 158,000 men in uniform do we need such a top heavy 3 pronged system - With the 3 arms fighting over a very small pie.
Inter service squabbles contributed to binning the Harrier early and buying 2 carriers which some think are very expensive luxuries!
One assumes you're referring to Air Regulatory........