I don’t think there’s any probably about it, it’s 100% to meet a shrinking budget. That’s been explicitly said already.
Or, like the previous incumbent, as a CI…? 
Don’t get me started on the nonsense of referring to a retired air officer as a ‘civilian’ instructor, but wouldn’t you think she’d be hon. president (and, as such, attending inspections, presentations, parades, etc, in uniform)?
It was her request & good on her for doing so. It’s quite common in a lot of ex serving to say they now regard themselves as a civilian.
I think part of that having spent 30 odd years as someone who’s constantly been responsible for others & giving orders it’s quite nice to switch off & potter. I would love to know her views on the Cace but I know she keeps the cards close to her chest bout current policy.
Would love to be a fly on the wall if any SNCO who didn’t know who she was tried to pull rank on her though.
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Interesting point made by a colleague about leaving the role gapped. Saves 6 figures a year
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Given how we have a team of COSs and Dep COSs now in place for different areas, I honestly am not sure if we would notice if they did that 
(It would allow for another 1400 VA days at £85 each, or 480k volunteer miles that we could claim 25ppm for)
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Just thinking more, what we would lose massively is that 1* influence within the RAF. Although you could argue we get pretty good 2* representation already from 22Gp.
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Also a thought that the VCC is commanded by a volunteer
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We also talk a lot about a purple cadet force. No reason we couldn’t have a ‘Commandant Cadets’ that covers us and the ACF/SCC… That would be unpopular 
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Would you go to the dark side for a 1* volunteer post?
I think we all know that would involve a 2* above the existing 1*’s.
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I think this is the point: that someone (TK, AOC 22 or probably AMP or CAS) wants the RAFAC to deliver tangible benefits for the RAF, not just to youth development. If you look at the direction of travel (scrap D&C camp, but add in a STEM Logistics camp) this does look plausible: the RAF doesn’t need more DIs (or CFAVs with sword drill skills) but it does need more Logistics officers, after all.
I suspect that the current situation is the logical outcome of how the current COS RAFAC described the HQ when he arrived at it, and the words he used can’t be repeated in a family forum. One of them was ‘dysfunctional’, though.
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It shouldn’t be gapped, advert goes out next week with the change expected to happen in September is my understanding.
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The feedback from a recent initial course I’ve had was during the Q&A with Commandant he said he wants to concentrate on our Astra objectives Air, Space & Cyber while reducing our risk profile to zero.
That seems rather idealistic, especially with 6 months remaining, but could be the dark clouds gathering meaning this organisation will radically shift in the near future. Zero risk = zero activity outside a classroom filled with soft furnishings and motivational posters. Good job we don’t have the words Adventure or Venture mentioned anywhere in our constituent parts.
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There is no such thing as a zero risk profile.
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And that’s where the sentence needs to end - even classroom work has inherent risk attached to.
If that’s genuinely the starting attitude of anyone in a senior responsible position in any organisation, that organisation is being set-up to fail.
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That was his service reputation too.
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Allegedly a struggle to find anyone he managed with a positive opinion of him…
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Just another case of moving a problem around - hopefully not what happens next time around too
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