Indeed. No way GBS would have used āGotā in that way.
I sit corrected (and appalled)ā¦
Maybe it is in a death spiral given this?
I saw this, bit ridiculous if Iām honest.
Iāve just come from the thread debating means of termination of a CWOās appointment. Not entirely sure thereās anything in ACP 20 that refers to mutiny.
I donāt think that cadet is long for this organisation.
āthis is a call for a coup, by definition a coup is:ā
I really hope it isnāt a grown adult who made that petitionā¦ What a sad , sad loser to be inciting a ācoupā for what is essentially scouts sponsored by the RAF. 
Claims to be a CWO, must be CCF as no over 18 would be that childish 
The typo for ASPIRE and suggestion the RAFAC is the āUKās biggest youth organisationā¦ā suggest they havenāt thought the wording through or offered a fully rational argument
ā Air commandorā? And yet he manages to get air vice-marshal right (hyphenated with one āLā).
We just get on and do stuff anyway so itās clearly ATC. āSchool laser rifle clubā anyone? Pure coincidence the membership is a 100% overlap with CCF
Pathetic is the word
YES. End of discussion.
Turbo would like it known that the contents of this thread further support their assertion above.
I would like it known that sports talk specifically (and especially where directly related the IBN that birthed that thread) belongs over there and not here 
I also offer my apologies to Turbo for continuing the conversation here even after they said it was the end of the discussion. But you asked for this, soā¦
The RAFAC as it was - Yes but then Iām sure every decade or so that happens.
The RAFAC in general No - for my area of the world at the local squadrons we are just seeing increases in cadets, higher attendance rates, and more people going on more (local) activities
What might kill us is the lack of CFAVs and burn out. There isnāt balance at the moment of how we manage the staff - the absolutely is people in the middle but a large portion either fall into the disillusioned and should probably leave as they can only see the negatives, or they are Uber keen and try and do too much and burn out.
I know Iām starting to fall into the Uber keen / burn out because I see so many of the negatives and feel I over compensate to make sure it doesnāt impact the cadets. Iāve caught myself a couple of times and physically had to tell myself stop or you will kill yourself you have a life outside of cadets as well.
Itās the staff we need to look at, there will always be the cadets in one fashion or another no matter what we do with the activities, even if we stopped all Region/National and even to some extent Wing events, Squadrons would survive if we can sort our staff out. What kills squadrons is no, ill or bad staff
As someone involved for nearly three decades I canāt think of a worse downturn.
In the past we had change - paper based exams to online, āprofessionalisationā of the RAFAC through more staff training and awarding of NGB qualiifcations as oppose to in-house ones. The āprofessionalisationā of the RAFAC between about 2000 and 2015 was much needed, but I now fear we are going to far and turning the RAFAC into a business where all some people are interested in is the bottom line.
Is it photoshopped? If not, itās a perfect visual representation of the RAFACās decline since 2014.