Female aircrew - limitations on where they can serve?
 

Serious question - as daughter #2 is part way through an application to join the Dark Blue as aircrew. Can the ladies serve on 847?

Yes, AFAIK. It's not exclusively commando manned.

AA, I don't know of a reason why not, 847 have had quite a few female techs. 845/46 have had female Pilots in the past.

Obviously your daughter has very good taste in A/C and will hopefully be flying the "Queen of the sky"........:) :)



Shaun

Dark Blue? :yuk:

Airborne,

all the limits on where females can serve have now been removed apart from a very specific list of jobs (can't find it, but sure it's on the MOD site somewhere, as there was a survey on it done recently).

Basically, everything apart from the armoured corps, the infantry regiments (actual troops on ground), Raf Reg and the CDOs (again troops on ground) are open to females. IIRC even the CDO artillery etc is open to women now? Anyone comment on that?

MrBernoulli - how mature. :rolleyes:

847
 

Engineers not Techs Timex - you are thinking back to the REME days!
Hope you are well,
Strek

MrB

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My daughter would like to be the third generation from our family to serve in the RN. My father went to BRNC aged 13 in 1947, I went aged 18 in 1978.

There are actually 2 branches in the RAF that women cannot join as regulars. The first is RAF Regt, in line with the prohibition on close combat arms (Inf, RAC but not, strangely, some elements of SF - see the lurid memoirs section of amazon.co.uk ). The second is Chaplain(RC) - but that is not strictly the RAF's 'fault'...

:O :O Ooops!

Yes mate fine, and you?


Shaun

An interesting point on the RC thing. Wonder if a female "wannabe" could successfully sue the RC church for gender discrimination?

AA,

Tradition my ar@e, my grandfather and my father both had rickets, piles and pleurisy but doesn't mean to say that my kids and I should endure the same :rolleyes:

I suggest a visit to the NSPCC web site for you chap as I am sure what you are encouraging your lovely daughter to commit comes under the cruelty heading :=

I have it on good authority that the fairer sex can serve in Iran....... if required to.

Advo

advo, you beat me to it, one might add, with Commandos too.

SFP - I'm telling the world she wants to follow in the family footsteps, but the truth is a bit more believable - her young man (a year older) wants to join as RN aircrew, so she's following him, so she can keep tabs on him I guess!

Sorry to hear about the Farmer Giles - try All Bran :}

PBA: "An interesting point on the RC thing. Wonder if a female "wannabe" could successfully sue the RC church for gender discrimination?"

Only a very very very patient one! Took 2000 years for the priest to turn around and face the audience.

CG

AA, is that the quaint RN tradition of calling everything on land what it equates to on a ship so that no-one gets confused or the one where you sit down for the loyal toast to avoid bumping your head on the low beams?:)

Both :} - there are others too, but this is a family show :E

Jungly
 

I knew I was safe with Timex, but did wonder whether someone would spot the irony...

Talking of cowboys, got your spurs polished for next job? See you soon ;)

Only need 3 ENGINEERS if you can't cope with 2.....

Strek

Why has she joined the army to become aircrew?