With reduced activities and fun things, we can provide our āBubble Wrappedā cadets, we would be lowering subs at this rate, but then we would struggle to kit out our cadets for the handful of activities we can do that havenāt been dried up with the āno fun spongeā which would mean a higher cost for parents having to buy all the kit that we normally provide.
I understand not all Sqns do marshaling in these warmer months but I know that some Sqns do and are often small communities that rely on cadets help. But as I have seen from this forum, itās a bombshell that no one was expecting. How many staff members from Sqns that rely on things like this are not on here having their rightful moan?
Should we start a bingo card for the next things that will be halted, the winner will be the one that works in the ivory towers
And any relationship within the local community has just been damaged perhaps fatally. The RAF use the RAFAC as part of their āblueā footprint where they are nonexistent, so this reflects on the RAF as well.
Iām doing damage control today - fortunately the farming community has a soft spot for the idea of folk being stiffed by people who live a long way away and who nothing about real life - but weāve lost friends over this, weāve really stuffed people,and weāll be really lucky if we get invited to this stuff again.
The financial loss is simply a disaster, but weāve lost stuff like a free stall at the county show, āthis years charityā at the YFC (Ā£700) when we did it last, I donāt fancy ringing up farming acquaintances to ask if we can use land for field craft or camping tripsā¦
It means nothing to people in blue suits with nice pensions, but for us itās lifeblood - but they donāt care, and they donāt care that they donāt care.
I canāt remember which Wing it was (Iāve been in 4 in the last four years, thanks RAF ) but one of them had already brought in a restriction of cadets carparking must be aged 16+. Although not ideal, it would have made for a better compromise than a total ban.
I am going to be exceptionally pleased when those that get invited to RAF or other unitsā families days get told we canāt help them, then watch as regulars have to do the work. I really hope all those organising feed back their displeasure to AOC22 group which is allegedly where this direct ban has come from.
Age 15, helped load live AIM-9Lās on a pair of RNoAF F-16ās at Bodo during a NATO ex - it was going up to harass a BEAR F that was sitting 20 miles off the coast, sunny day, we could see it with the maked eyeā¦
Marshalled them out to the runway, stood 60ft away when they lit the burners. The pair were supersonic at 30,000ft before my legs stopped shaking.
Cadets at Coltishall when the Jaguars were being readied for deployment to GW 1 had cadets painting them in desert pink, ground crews taped and plugged off the vital areas and the cadets painted them.
That was what was said, but if the issue here is itās too dangerous to insure, that decision may be MOD, as they are the ones indemnifying us. Surely that should also effect the ACF too?
) but one of them had already brought in a restriction of cadets carparking must be aged 16+. Although not ideal, it would have made for a better compromise than a total ban.