Comdt RAFAC leaving & replacement

[Baldrick]

Or not?

[WhiskeyNovember]

Am I reading this right? TK appears to be responsible for selecting his replacement.

CMDT AIR CADETS - SERVE

[Turbo]

Full Time Reserve Service (Limited Commitment) Terms

I think the phrase ‘Limited Commitment’ sums it up quite nicely!

[Farmerdan]

No. He’s the point of contact for any questions about the role.

[Mr_OZ]

The following are only desirable and not essential

Working with young people.
Working with volunteers
innovative thinker

I would suggest that understanding the volunteer dynamic is crucial to the post of Cmdt Air cadets.

[bob]

TK is the point of contact so that an applicant can visit HQAC and see what the job is all about. Any applicant will be a known factor at the paper sift, which I suspect will not be a long process.

[Eeh_Bah_Gum]

Don’t worry guys, everything is fine and dandy in RAFAC. Well that’s who contacts TK will be told.

“Just carry on as I did and they’ll all follow to hell and back”. “They moan a bit, but just treat them as AS2 and they’ll succumb to wat ever you throw at them”. he says.

[pEp]

This was the same for the previous 2 appointments at least IIRC.

[Horriblelittletechie]

@Turbo

Full Time Reserve Service (Limited Commitment) Terms

“Limited Commitment (LC) appointments are established FTRS posts, used when there is a requirement for compulsory separated service up to 35 days, including to an Operational theatre. LC pays 5% x-factor and there is normally no entitlement to quarters or home to duty expenses”

Just means they’ll be paid less and not deployed. No house either. So money saving exercise…

[Giminion]

@Mr_OZ

desirable and not essential

innovative thinker

Odd, considering the word “innovative” appears in the responsibilities section…

[Chief_Tech]

@Mr_OZ

I would suggest that understanding the volunteer dynamic is crucial to the post of Cmdt Air cadets.

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!

[MikeJenvey]

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.

[Eeh_Bah_Gum]

His LinkedIn missive said leaving at the 4 year mark in Sep 24, usually contracted for blocks of 4 years.

[themajor]

@Giminion

stuff has been ripped down and these projects set in motion and CAC doesn’t have to see it through

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.

[Giminion]

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:

@Giminion

say “I ruined a load of stuff and made a lot of people unhappy…"

I don’t believe that could have been the original intention.

[theAdj]

Yeah, treat us as AS2’s and see what happens…

[PAUL463]

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.

[MikeJenvey]

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?