Have a cadet who is swithering between SNCO and Officer. They are certain uniform is the right route for them, just not sure what route.
They are a very switched-on CWO, and imo would be great in either route. They love drill, but are also very involved with admin and organising events. So i pose the question, is there anything an SNCO CANT do? And vice versa.
Naturally, have mentioned an officer cant be a DI… 
Thoughts welcome - will be sharing the responses.
I think there’s something about you have to be an officer to hold an inventory? But that might be rubbish. AFAIK there is very little that an officer can do that an SNCO can’t. For that matter there’s not much a CI can’t do!
Be saluted!
Also they can’t ever get paid as much as an officer can 
apart from be an ECO (I think)
Not sure on that, but it would make sense. I think I remember seeing something like that before as it can be a WO or an officer maybe? I’m pretty sure I remember someone’s WO promotion getting expedited so they could be wing shooting officer previously. Something to do with signing off paperwork.
there are currently 2 WShOs who are FS 
I’m only going off what I’ve heard. It’s likely to be wrong 
You can be the Wing Shooting Officer as any rank, however you can’t be appointed as a Senior Planning Office by the Exercise Director unless you are a WO or Fg Off OF1 or higher. Cadet Training Ranges Para 2-03 b Refers.
That sounds like what I was thinking of 
Good to hear I was on the right lines 
They can’t tell a Jobsworth WO or FS where they can get off.
well . . . they can . . . 
Because of the nature of the volunteer organisation the line between SNCO and Officer has been blurred somewhat over the last 10 years. I would encourage them to think about future aspirations as to what path they choose.
They could be an SNCO for a few years, and then commission, more difficult to go the other way. They may want to hold a role such as OC SATT or Regional Shooting Officer at some point where I would advise they take the officer role early on and work through their promotion matrix.
Hopefully whichever role they take they will be engaged and remain in the org!
otoh, I’d hope that people are much more pragmatic these days. If someone spent 10 yrs as a SNCO and then switched to officer, it would not be at all unfeasible to get to (for e.g.) Sqn Ldr within 10 yrs, particularly if they’d already held Wg roles as an SNCO. If they’re a CWO now, they’d still only be halfway through their adult service anyway.
I agree and we are seeing people move from SNCO in to an accelerated officer promition which helps.
I’d also think that if someone spent 10 years as a CI and got experience in a wide range of activities, there’s no reason they also couldn’t do the same if they then commissioned
Can’t easily switch from Officer to SNCO, but the reverse is easier.
Not something they can’t do, but less likely to command a sqn if they’re an SNCO.
At the very least less likely to have some idiot think they can apply pressure to force it to happen…
plenty of people would see this as a reason to go down the SNCO route…
Indeed. Myself included.