LASER Review ...10 years on

Adult Staff Execs
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DI is not mandatory to get WO despite what some try to make out.

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So next year is the 20 year anniversary, who is feeling old yet?

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I got slippers for Christmas. I didn’t need reminding I’m getting old by dredging this thread up.

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I mean, I was 10 when the Laser review happened… Didn’t join cadets for another 4 years after that… I’ve not known any different. :person_shrugging:

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How odd that you’ve bumped this thread Alex, look what i heard today

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Its what prompted me to realise.

Sad News indeed.

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I was a proud White Tab wearing FS and CWO

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Same. I had Sgt as well. The good old days of trying to hide as much of your “peado” tab as possible without getting pulled up by an AWO

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I was a keen flying officer about to run my first squadron. Makes me feel very old!

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My DPM CWO badge (because we could back then) had a stripe of black electrical tape above the crown - subdued staff cadet :slight_smile:

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Just asking, as I am relatively new to LASER review, what does it stand for in this instance? Presumably not the region?

Thanks

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No, it was restructuring of adult nco ranks and staff cadet service in the main. I think the naming was coincidental but happy to stand corrected.

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Thanks. I managed to get a respectable grasp of it to do with staff cadets and such, but the name seemed a little strange.

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The review was led by Les Hakin as LASER RC, hence the name. It was a positive part of his legacy.

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Thanks I hadn’t made that connection. Assumed it was yet another acronym!

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I understood it was exactly that, as in the Long-term Adult Sergeant Establishment Review (and that was following the original very-limited ‘LaSER Sgts’ trial, which was run in that self-named Rgn…)

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It also changed over 18s to needing to be Sgt before their birthday to be retained.

Maybe that was just to stick with the S in the title :man_shrugging:

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Which was a recommendation that wasn’t accepted by HQAC.

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It was on my unit… my first night the Cpl that showed me round left as they were turning 18 and hadn’t been promoted.

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Was on my unit as well.