The RAFAC is not the organisation I joined. Root and stem it is rotten, from worthless ladder climbers without a clue in key positions around HQAC, to a Pers/SG team that doesn’t care about the damage it does to volunteers with it’s long term sub standard investigations. The organisation is broken. And this is another nail in the coffin of an organisation that provides less and less every day. Volunteers are worthless, the ‘cadet experience’ has ceased to be anything worth having.
I have resigned today. I haven’t enjoyed it for a long time, there is no enjoyment for me anymore.
Best of luck to those of you who stay, but RAFAC as I knew it died a long time ago, and I’m not going to stick around and watch it sink further into the abyss.
Maybe I’ll follow @Baldrick and see what the SCC has to offer.
we should try to understand what a Rgn SME is doing that is different to a Wing SME.
for me, a Wing role is, be it shooting, AT, Radio, First Aid - whatever is overseeing SMS events (offering event approval etc) AND also conducting Wing opportunities and potentially Squadron visits (this could be run the SME topic, to promote it at a Squadron which doesn’t get involved, or to meet with CFAVs who require some guidance)
Region SME role: overseeing SMS. All the CFAVs our Wing have “lost” to Region, are never seen again and other than Region Sports (coordinating Region led competitions), I don’t hear from them again either.
I am very much in favour of a Wing SME - in our Wing, in nearly all cases the Wing SME leads events in their subject matter for the Wing. the first Aid officer, organising first aid courses, the shooting officer, organises Wing shooting, DofE Officer, leads the Wing DofE exped, Radio Officer, runs radio courses etc.
So I would be against losing that resource - it is useful to the Wing structure.
If someone can point out to me what i have missed out from the Region SME role I might change my view, but as someone with a a long standing view that Region is just a “filter” to HQAC, I am not sure what they offer.
Far better to expand HQAC by 25% and lose Regions in my opinion.
When I was in a Region role I saw it as a way to collaborate between Wings, spread best practice and work on staff development. I know of other Regional Staff who did similar.
Unfortunately you’re right that a lot don’t do anything with it.
Heard from my sisters squadron that as they’ve had to cancel a PGL type camp they had planned for the cadets in 3 weeks time, that they will likely loose the nearly £7k they’d paid. Making the Squadron potentially financially unstable and possibly closing.
Not sure how it’s me getting this information out in Peru from a region I was never even involved with, but a contact has sent me some details.
"Turns out a few civil servants threatened to quit if workload didn’t reduce. Couple that with leave over August.
Ultimatly this is a “fire break” before what could have been an indefinite pause.
So what happens in September the flood gates are reopened?"
Personally, I find myself questioning what catastrophic mismanagement has led to having civil servants having too much workload to the point of effectively giving an ultimatum of “industrial action”?
Also, having seen how much work some civil servants do, I wonder if they actually know what an average person’s normal workload looks like…
Good news, the local station families day is likely to go ahead, the ACF have been drafted to complete the marshalling duties (including car parking) we normally do.
I guess they are more likely to get a muster as a thank you now with much air experience
I hope someone has emailed the AVM letting him know about this stupidity. If the ACF can car park, then so can we. It makes no sense. We both have the same top level cover.
