nsfw_rafac has devolved almost completely into a low effort hit campaign.
At this point it’s nothing short of cyber bullying.
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Stopped following them a while back.
Glad I did.
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Just report for bullying, if a number of accounts do the same in a short while it tends to flag it.
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I never actually followed that one, because it was very low effort when I looked least time. Seems it’s fully monkey/typewriter now. There are some very funny ones on there, but most are low effort just being offensive.
Lower tier memes for sure.
You would say that Mr vrtmemes
But I agree. Stopped following sometime back now.
I think its Cadet run, theres no savvyness to the memes
So could also be an AWO?
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Of the era that AWO was a thing, possibly.
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Do AWOs of that era know what Instagram is??
I was thinking about just how much vitriol the commandant gets, is he the most unpopular CAC ever? Babs and Dawn got some stick, but this guy…
I mean, I really dislike the chap, he makes a mockery of everything we teach in leadership, because he demonstrates some really poor qualities in the way he treats his subordinates and how he comports himself.
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I’ve mentioned in my squadron staff WhatsApp group why I think the reasoning is.
Unsure about Babs as I was a cadet at the time.
Dawn was an adminer. Arguably the most irritating trade I’ve come across, but that’s not the point.
Her solution to managing risk is to, do what she did in her day job, which is to have a paper trail to document and outline the reasoning why each decision was made.
Not the worst thing in the world… But combine it with volunteers and not paid regulars, it doesn’t really work as intended.
I reckon she tried to apply her full time service with a volunteer organisation. Looks good, doesn’t work.
Keeling tries the same thing. Combines his regular service to RAFAC. He’s already got the bureaucracy that Dawn gave us. But on top of this, he is an engineer. Post Haddon-Cave era engineers are arguably the most risk averse officers within the air force. On a flying squadron the level of risk they hold is stupid. Give that engineer an air rank and put him in charge of cadet gliding, shooting, all those activities that are risk to life… And the guy tries to apply his old work standards, which is a basic full stop to things when something, anything, looks a bit wrong… It’s not going to go well. It’s exactly like grounding a fleet when something such as a lost tool happens. Absolutely the right call on a flying squadron. But a bit of poor weather in one part of the country does not mean full stop else where.
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Excellent analysis!
And this where he should believe and trust his RCs, and their subordinates to provide accurate, timely and precise information for those people within each Region.
Whereas, as it stands, CAC says stop and RCs say ‘yes Sir’ 
I get it, I understand the apprehension over the risk. Especially with safeguarding and the recent internal memos in the RAF reference instructor / student relations. The huge issues with D&I. I get the concern.
But I believe he was ex-OC ELW at Lossiemouth. Station Principle Engineer fulfilling QR 640. Every single air frame at Lossiemouth in accordance with the MAA, MAM-P and all the RAs, he was responsible for. They were, in essence, HIS aircraft. It’s a huge level of responsibility, huge level of risk and a huge level of trust in his juniors.
Seems to be that simply just hasn’t carried over.
He’s even got top cover with AOC 22Gp with the flying side of things. I want to believe it’s simply red tape in the office. Maybe he’s looking at genuinely huge areas where everyone at the coal face simply hasn’t got over sight of. Maybe huge gaps in the MoD indemnity now everyone isn’t VRT.
Who knows. 
I had a similar thought - meme pages were a thing, but we never really had them until now.
I think part of it as well is that decisions have been made which have directly impacted cadets negatively and they’ve noticed and known why.
Previously, decisions might have made our lives a bit harder or more awkward, but the cadets didn’t really feel or see it. We weren’t typically stopped from doing something, just inconvenienced more. Dawn also had the hearts and minds of the cadets (and some staff) - despite being dubbed “The Twitter Queen” for negative reasons her internal PR game was pretty good and she was visible to all physically and digitally getting involved.
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GMG: people who drive electric cars… But litter. Stop contradicting yourselves; you either love the planet, or you don’t.
See your mistake there was thinking they care about the planet, not just wanting a new shiny expensive toy that they can show off
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As they queue at a service station for a couple of hours for a recharge watch all the ICE owners drive in and out in 10 minutes.
You charging with a hamster wheel or something? 
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