The one thing YOU would change.
 

Congratulations!! PMA has decided that you are to be the next CAS!!!!!!!

Today is day one, and you have had the fantastic idea of of changing something that "aint broke" to impress your new authority!!

If you had one thing to change in your service life what would it be?

Shorter tighter skirts for (selected) WAAFS :ok:

Great idea Radalt,

The flow-on effect will be significant - (in one way, at least!)

Our chief flight checker always says, almost predictably -

"A check ride is like a short skirt, short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything"

I hope this suggestion will have the necessary effect!

Cheers, FD :E

I would ensure that every RAF guy/girl on detachment is commanded exclusively by the RAF and not the feckin Army. This would send morale through the roof as a semblance of normality is returned as we start treating our people like adults again, as we do on every RAF station I have every served on.

all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced

Sounds good to me!!!.....

However, It may prove detrimental as I seem to remember a few years ago there was an SAC dental nurse at a certain North Yorkshire training station. She looked amasing in a short tight skirt but in the the few weeks prior to her 24hr posting managed to ground more baby pilots ( If you know what I am saying) than the luftwaffe managed in the first day of the BoB!!!

Excuse me a minute, I need to apply some cream.

Well, there's a lot that CAS can not change such as the big, late equipment programmes or dearth of funding so lets not pretend that he can move mountains during his 2-year tenure.

Apart from sacking the dweeb that bought the 'medium weight trouser' and replacing him with a chappy from the Bahrain soukh (who also does a nice line in polyester but at half the cost - and with complimentary coffee), I guess ACM Slappery would have to work out in simple terms exactly where he thought the RAF was going to be in 5-10 years time and then go and tell his 41k employees face-to-face (or as many of them as possible).

And please don't tell me to go and read the copious quantities of stuff that has already been written; there are so many initiatives, changes and visions floating around that nobody seems to have a simple unified view of our destiny.

SS

Allow all personnel to plan, and pay for, their own duty travel/accom using corporate credit cards. No more battling with Admin just to end up with crap Hotel rooms and rip off air tickets.

Allow forces personnel to be able to put there children in any state school they wish, at any time.

An old gripe of mine I am afraid:

Remove the rubbish Uniform Tax Allowance and start issuing uniforms to officers.

STH

I'd take the wage and pad in London, be a Yes man and retire on the massive pension and b@lls to the Air Force. I'd be leaving and set for life on a good pension . . . . . . . .:E

No American do gooder is allowed to command Commonwealth (Yes, even the old colonies) forces. That way, we can run our own bar on deployment, and actually enjoy ourselves. None of this 3 beer rule. The greatest destroyer of morale ever seen. I'll take unnlimited beer with an occasional suicide bomber any day :D

And while you are about it, give 'em some decent shoes - a short(er) skirt and some decent pins are ruined every time they have to put on those clod-hoppers that are left over from a contract for the Hungarian Army.:E

Strippers in the Mess. oops already seen that in Pearce WA! - fantastic!!

NAAFI coffee. The taste lingers on long after the bl**dy shop died!

Let's have a Starbucks (free of course) in every crewroom. Oh, and a Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. And a Subway for that healthy lunch.

How about a boss who knows when to say 'No, my troops are stretched enough'. And, here's the important bit, a boss who can do such without fear of reprisal.

Agree?

WITHDRAWAL OF PREVIOUS POST
 

I know I could just delete it, but having given some thought to my options as CAS I thought I would just leave my previous comment in (I wouldn't be able to make the change myself anyway, so let's say I'd pass this one down the line to Binnsworth SO1 Trousers - a personally signed memo should do the trick.

No, what I have in mind I could probably do without reference to anyone else, and it would not only boost morale, it would actually save money and HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT (EXCEPT A POSITIVE ONE) ON OUR OPERATIONAL OUTPUT!

I would withdraw the RAF from the IIP Scheme, and ban all similar schemes. Management consultants would not be allowed to be employed by the Service, except at Sevice Rates appropriate to the task (eg wg cdr rates rather than £1000/day).

STH

Reduce the disproportionate number of commissioned officers and replace them with SNCO's:ok:

Too many Orificers in the RAF performing tasks that are well within the capability of a good snec. Would give the RAF an opportunity to look at it's people and their abilities better, thus stream them appropriately, improve career prospects and promotion for the troops, reduce the wages and pension bill overall and give those officers remaining better opportunities to hone their leadership and management skills.

Seems like a corker to me:E

Bring back SNCO pilots, I'd transfer to it myself...:ok:

1. Close all Station Headquarters.

2. Close all MOD buildings in London and move the occupants to Benbeculiar or somewhere similar so they get to know what its like to live in out of the way places!

3. Buy new aeroplanes! Anything that does the job, looks right and is loads of fun to fly!

4. Make the whole of Europe a 50' low flying area so people know we exist! After all, "Jet noise is the sound of freedom"

5. Close Valley and reopen Chivenor!

6. Select a professional pilot group who do nothing but fly aeroplanes and pay them the going rate!! No secondary duties and no B........t!!

7. Provide an ATPL and a job interview for all those wishing to leave at their 38/16 point!

8. Ban Ladies Guest nights and make mess games compulsory after dinner!

9. Burn all pianos!

There are more but I need to take my blood pressure tablets and retire to the Pub!

Install a bomb bay door in every 32 Sqn airframe, located immediately under the seat marked "The Glorious Prime Minister, All Hail Him"....

Subsequently, somewhere over the Atlantic en route to a Bush brown-nosing trip, the lever would be pulled...:}