April Fools

At RAFC Cranwell, vintage years ago, the WRAF dress standard for tights / stockings changed from a grotty orangey colour to “Pewter Grey” & if my aged memory is correct, it was effective on 01 Apr.

So, all female student officers were notified to parade by Whittle Hall at lunchtime for an inspection…

…by only male staff, who initially asked for a label check!! Poor girls, their chins dropped!! :astonished:

Then the inspection was, of course, cancelled. :grin:

That’s a really good idea, I love it. Might suggest it to the staff at my sqn for next year

No, no, that’s actually a good idea.

Which is why they’d never do it. They could cut costs by reducing the command structure, reduce the number of databases we run for record keeping, maximise the opportunities for the cadets by opening up all the courses

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Sounds like one of the options from DYER, which HQAC caught a massive cold over as it would have meant no non jobs for the boys and girls.

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Any new ones before I post the ibull with fake link?

If someone can link to the GM Wing one without outing themselves it would be good :stuck_out_tongue:

I tried linking from Facebook but it’s doing that annoying thing where when you click the link it goes “Joe Bloggs is trying to share something with you!”

Posted this on the make me laugh thread but will post here for posterity

Took me a little while to clock the Sqn number!

Hope this works.

https://fb.watch/yHmLXae9jO/?

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As jokes go, this isnt bad…

This was from a decade ago now. Printed these out to look like they had come from the web, then left them scattered around campus for people to find.

It got a little out of hand. Lecturers ended up having to tell their students about the date before their lectures, the facilities staff apparently had an informal meeting about whether their jobs were safer and, a few weeks later, I was cycling into the city with a local person who told me how the campus was being sold off to an oil firm.

This is very funny

That professionalism includes stealing sculptures yeah?

You mean they should have invoked the British Museum defence?

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Wait a minute. Has the entire air force been an April fools joke this whole time? :thinking:

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Its definitely heading that way :wink:

It’s how I’ve taught cadets to remember the formation date during first class training! Always remember the RAF is a joke :joy::joy:

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