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Given the way some matters have been handled lately, do the RAF or MoD deserve IIP status!

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Given the way some matters have been handled lately, do the RAF or MoD deserve IIP status!

A very close friend of my daughter, who serves in the RAF has just been involved in an extremely bad car accident. Every stop has been pulled out to ensure that her family and partner have been able to support her.

In Civvie street you get the support of your friends, but you don’t get the support from your company to pay for your friends and family to travel across the country (world) to see them.

Yes I believe the RAF and MoD still deserve some form of recognition in the way it supports its people. We always had (and I would like to think still have) IIP status. We just don’t need some poxy initiative and a plaque on the wall to prove it!!

SRENNAPS

Just to clarify, when you say "MoD", that does not apply to civvies.

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IiP binned? My arse.

These things have a shelf life. They function to provide non jobs and backhanders to Quangos, Directorships, etc

But at some stage during their lifespan, the ability to fleece the customer diminishes, and the project is allowed to wilt, allowing the chance for a new initiative!

IiP is being replaced, and so the cycle continues.

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What a sad, but accurately, true statement that is. It is just a shame that the "customer" cant see it.

I remember very well the introduction of IIP all those years ago and I have to say I seem to remember that it was truly embraced by just about every commissioned officer I knew (junior aircrew excluded) and totally despised by just about every SNCO I knew (Just like every other “initiative” we had thrust upon us).

Thankyou, SRENNAPS

You and I (inadvertantly) have also highlighted the downtrodden overworked cynical SNCO's attitude compared to the zelous promotion seeking h'officers yearly innitiatives that paper over the cracks, and keep us away from our primary duties.

It would be interesting to see the original statements supporting the application for IiP, set against this recent announcement that we can't afford it.

Not that interesting mind... I'm on my Terminal Leave.