So saw this on Facebook, and so begins the questions from cadets about something I know nothing about officially:rolleyes:
Personally I would like to know more about the new activities, as this is what will form the most questions form cadets;
524 Cadet Places @ 2 weeks of Wretham Super Camps
100 Cadet Places @ Beckingham Shooting Camp
Those rumours of the parachute badge being elitist can’t be true, more places available for 2017 than there are combined for QAIC & JL.
Saw this yesterday too. Discussed this with the staff last night and got loads of head scratching. Asked the Wing Training Officer and he said ‘What?’ Not a good start for us as soon as the cadets twig this is out there. Of course most have just stopped asking after we were told that our Wing had 9 spaces for the whole of RIAT.
This is going to be a challenging year.
HQAC random comms policy in action again.
One assumes that a Chior is, in fact, a Choir?? 
That is strange, as a wing that has never gone to RIAT Camp to my knowledge in the past 10 years, we got 14 places.
Yeah, there is a choir camp this year…
If they got that Gareth bloke off the tele to run it, it might amount to something.
RAFWARMA 350
HAQC has nothing to do with the organising of the 2 day march. Anyway it was more like 850 cadets not 350.
No mention of the SGM with another 200 cadets.
Nijmegen is capped at 300 by HQAC due to cost and not 330.
This poster is what somebody has put together to show what we are doing for some 2 star I would have thought. Looks good but not quite right.
Looks for all the world like the sort of thing we’d put together in my old job for senior management, lots of pretty colours and abbreviations on sheet of paper when it came to budget begging time. It only nodded to reality and what we really did was never according to the pretty picture.
It also looks like the pretty couple of semi-fictional A4s we have on the wall for trg prog that impresses wing staff.
Looks more like our office holiday planner, but that’s more useful and accurate.
i am pretty certain the shooting camp ran in 2016. I recall the Wg Shooting officer asking me if i was interested (i believe in the summer asking for Oct Half term) but having other plans and already committed too much of my leave to the organisation declined the opportunity…[quote=“themajor, post:5, topic:2824”]
That is strange, as a wing that has never gone to RIAT Camp to my knowledge in the past 10 years, we got 14 places.
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in an attempt to make the national camp opportunity more of a nation wide opportunity Wings have been offered places across the board
Not at Corps level, as far as I’m aware, there was the CISSAM training weekends organised by SDT though.
The number of cadets is limiting as I know that Aerospace was oversubscribed for the last 2 years and as as a wing we run a weekend shooting camp for 250 cadets.
Will places be allocated to Wings in the same way as RIAT for these extra camps.
For RIAT main camp each Region was given 98 cadet places and the CCF 50 to be divided in Wings as they see fit, S&NI split their allocation according to Wg strength so SES got I believe 30 ish places , Highland 9 ,NI 17 etc, For some this is a lot less than normal for others more, if anyone doesn’t want theirs we will take them
There are also 110 Cdt places for the 2 week extended build/take-down camp that can be bid on by individual Sqns , these places are now over subscribed.
I can assure you that in the last 10+ years RIAT has been oversubscribed.
either for the build/take down side
the main camp
for cadets or staff
typically the nominations are in excess of double the number of places actually available…
rather than deal with this as a team deciding which 1000 come from 2000 nominations, that pressure and admin task is down to Wings to manage, which maybe 30 nominations for 12 places…
What Steve79 just said. It gives all wings the opportunity to send cadets and staff … even those wings “who have never sent any”. The question has to be asked of that wing is why they have never sent any … but I can assure you that over the last 10 years every wing has sent cadets and staff at some point. In 2016 there were only 3 wings that were not represented, but they had been in previous years.
So the shooting camp is for … ummmm let me think … shooting maybe
The Wretham Super Camp is a trial for 2 regions to take part in. This could be the future of annual camps if it works. The RAF is getting smaller so a new way of delivering annual camps has to be thought about, this is one thought that will deliver the “Blue Experience” as well as delivering the “Green Experience” as well as delivering the “USA Experience” and a splattering of AT as well … possibly.
The calendar has been produced so that staff (and cadets) can see when things are happening in the year and plan for it. Some staff may wish to volunteer for a STEM camp rather than a standard annual camp, some staff may wish to use their precious holidays for something they were unaware the corps delivered. The same goes for cadets. It’s a bit of forward planning. Its gone social media as SP is rather unstable at present. More information is being released on the above and on the Progressive Training Syllabus before Christmas if we get SP up and running. If not then very early in the new year.
It could have been emailed to staff rather than social media if the dumping ground was unstable.
SharePoint is up and running, and has only been inaccessible for the past 2 days during the pre-announced period of Downtime.
All it takes is a simple email, with links to the relevant content on SharePoint, we would then avoid all of these problems.
Agreed. A few lines on what each might involve so that staff could answer cadet questions would’ve been great.
Instead, once more, I feel like a mushroom.
Perhaps even before the post on social media…
