The RAF of the 21st century does not require fieldcraft skills or the RAF Regiment, discuss

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@shrivelledraisin

The other thing is Raf Reg provides a fair JTAC capability to RM and Army. Though RA could absorb this quite easily

That’s rather the point, there’s nothing the reg do that another formation couldn’t do equally well if not better.

@cygnus_maximus

The Army generally only view defending an airfield in terms of real estate.

So you teach them. They’ve got enough bodies and sway in the AAC to be able to convert folk over.

@WestlandScout

Part of our USP is we do blue and green.

Part of our USP is we do flying. How’s that one working out…?

We mirror our parent organisation. If they don’t do green, neither should we.

There’s also the side point that if we say “we require cadets to do green stuff, we should provide them green uniform”, currently we don’t and this is a major discrepancy.