NEP and LOA define the period and as long the organisation doesn’t take its eye off the ball, conversations about coming back can be had. With all the tech wizardry about now, Wing and Sqn could be sent an email a couple of months before the end, to initiate contact re returning or not.
Leave it as a purely local arrangement, which I agree should be all it needs to be, when you are busy with real life and all it brings, not including cadet things, people can be forgotten and again not just in the cadets.
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That’s just it, the organisation doesn’t officially have its eye on the ball; it probably doesn’t even know where the ball is in the first place or even that there’s one out there!
NEP staff need to be informed and looked after. If they ultimately choose to go, fine, but it shouldn’t be despite want of trying on RAFAC’s part. These are for the most part trained and experienced people, yet we seem resigned to letting them go and (maybe eventually) replace them with inexperienced newbies.
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I’m impressed you think the org cares about the people it has in it let alone those halfway out.
The only time a CFAV is recognised by anyone these days is when they have some mandatory training missing and want to attend an event.
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And that’s the point! They need to start caring! The sooner they realise that CFAVs are not the same as Regulars who can be messed around and ignored because they’ve signed on for a duration, the better.
NEP isn’t new, but it’s use is clumsy, disorganised and unfocused (pretty much like our HQs). It frustrates the hell out of me that we are misusing a good process and thereby disaffecting our people.
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Or there is blame to be deflected upon.
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