There now seems to be agreement by all NATO members to accept Finland and Sweden into NATO.
So what is next?
The Chief of General Staff wrote to troops saying this is like 1937, leading an army who has to prepare for another european land war.
Could they, theoretically, reintroduce the old order** requiring certain members (the then-VRT) to report to parent stations for potential orders? Despite obviously creating the CFC, many were originally VRT.
**A Cold War order that was in AP1919 and removed in the late 90s/early 00s
How many current CFAV are even L98 trained? At best all the org could offer would be a few people who could guard some (less) critical infrastructure and a few who could teach some of the basic skills in a protracted conflict. Even then the ACF or RM CFAV would be better qualified.
If they asked for volunteers I doubt even then we’d be top of any list.
Given the mass hysteria and panic buying caused by covid 2 years ago, I feel our skills would be best served guarding the toilet rolls in Tesco. That, or do some form filling to release people to go and fight. Nobody fills in forms like RAFAC fills in forms.
I still query what use we’d be over new recruits, having been in RAF phase 1 training, I’m sorry to say that the vast majority of RAFAC CFAV are nowhere near that standard.
We’re not trained in RAF processes or practises, so we can’t do their admin or their training.
Nobody’s going to call us up for anything. We’re not special in the slightest.
Same here. I imagine that the Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunal would get rather busy before conscription is brought in as they’ll mobilise reservists first. And then would be even worse after.
From a PR perspective it might be easier to conscript CFAVs before the rest of the general population but lots of us would be of no combat use, even with training, so it would only be a matter of months before they’d have to extend it anyway so they probably wouldn’t bother with a distinction.
