Just means they’ll be paid less and not deployed. No house either. So money saving exercise…
Odd, considering the word “innovative” appears in the responsibilities section…
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Whilst this is true, anyone applying should be able to do the essential if they are competent in the rank advertised.
The desirable criteria should be what sorts out the good candidates from the mediocre candidates - provided there is more than one applicant!
Don’t have the FOI to hand, but one of the answers stated the TK would be in post until Sep 2025, so it certainly seems that he has retired one yr early.
His LinkedIn missive said leaving at the 4 year mark in Sep 24, usually contracted for blocks of 4 years.
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Is this not an opportunity for the successor to be the one that restores these activities.
TK gets all the hate and the new 1* the glory.
That’s kind of my point. Ultimately it doesn’t affect us any differently, but if he was right all along he gets no vindication.
Ultimately why should we care, but I go back to this:
I don’t believe that could have been the original intention.
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Yeah, treat us as AS2’s and see what happens…
You would have to register as a club and pay the annual fees to go over to the NSRA rules. That was certainly the case when I looked at this very thing in the 2014 shooting review.
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Probably better to “register” or align as an organisation rather than a club (unless entire RAFAC would count as one club)?
I suspect the NSRA (& of course NRA) would be very pleased to have cadets under their umbrella. Might make CCRS’s life easier for Fullbore shooting too?
From memory (it was a long time ago), each Sqn would have to register as a club. It was cost prohibitive, also there were questions around the exemptions i.e. need to have a fire arms certificate.
Best sticking with the current safe system of training, etc.
Moving a risk to life activity to the oversight of a NGB?
It’ll never catch on…
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He better not! LASER can have him, not a single cadet or staff member in SW that I have talked to wants to even so much as hear is name again after Sept 24.
on that topic, any know how Dawn is getting on as a CI on Squadron somewhere down in Cornwall isn’t she?
Well he knew he wasn’t going to be an AVM that’s why he went FTRS
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You’re correct. Its widely thought in the RAF that Comdt AC is a retirement job.
Cant remember anyone in recent history who took on a new military role and proceeded past Air Cmdr. Gordon Moulds and Ian Stewart stayed Air Cmdr
Considering both Chitty & Moulds came in as regular officers with the view that they had futures & didn’t progress I think it would be a naive person who took the role as FTRS thinking they would have a 2 Star future.
It used to be a 1 star has been role, now as FTRS it’s a “never was” role.
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Was he actually promotable to be a regular 1*, especially after being short toured as A4 commander to RAFAC on an FTRS contract?
No.
And especially no if stories are true.
169 St Blazey. Helps out as if she was and always has been a good CI. She has no special treatment in the Wing, she is, as are the rest of the CI’s in PCW, a good member of staff.
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