I recommend using the id of a 500ml Häagen-Dazs ice-cream tub as a dice rolling mat.
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The lack of an Oxford Comma on the latest staff recruitment poster just put out on Facebook.
Apparently “visiting airfields” is Adventure Training. That’s not mentioning that it reads like we canoe on hills.
Tbh, the more I look at it the worse it becomes…
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The best canoeing is on hills
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And the best hiking is in the lake!
New Year’s Honours list is out. I know it’ll just anger me. I’m going to read it anyway.
About four seconds into it and I’ve seen the words ‘for services to cricket.’ Somebody restrain me, please.
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You leave cricket alone!
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All the women do…
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Nope. We get left out as usual.
‘Here you go jonny 30 years exemplary service and leading on x,y,z sqn, increasing cadet and CFAV numbers on each unit… have a commandant air cadets certificate…’
‘Erm, what for? To wipe my bum with?’
‘But it’s highly sought after and praiseworthy’
‘Yet no body in the real world knows what it is’
Yet there are entries for ‘services to knitting’ OBE.
services for children OBE… 5 years on a youth group.
What the literal!
Not saying I will ever get one. But if none ever does, that says alot.
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A Squadron Leader in my Wing has apparently been awarded a MBE though I can’t find his name on the RAF list.
Edit: light bit of google searching and I’ve found him on the military list.
Has he got it through non cadet activities?
Maybe through another part of their life… seems the only way
Apparently not, found them on the military list now.
Yep. You can count on it.
Prats.
Yep it is…
I nominate 5-10 people per year.
Not the same people.
In 5 years of doing so have had 1 success.
Disgusting, considering all are so deserving.
Pathetic civil service clogging up the system with ‘honours for day job’.
This is what we got, 1 ”proper” award.
The RAF posted about his citation on Facebook
Squadron Leader Roger Beech (retired) has received an MBE in this year’s New Year Honours List and was nominated for his role as Wing Staff Officer, Headquarters No. 1 Welsh Wing, Air Training Corps.
Beech’s citation notes his outstanding leadership qualities, commitment, dedication and longevity have provided an inspiration to all. He has spent nearly 45 years as Squadron Commander, during which he has helped to develop more than 600 young people and provide them with citizenship, leadership and teamwork skills. Through his leadership, his staff and cadets have raised thousands of pounds for a vast array of charities.
On receiving the MBE, Squadron Leader Beech said: “I am normally never one lost for words. My Regional Commandant, Group Captain Simon, certainly silenced me when he told me the news. It’s difficult to put into words but gobsmacked would sum it up!
This award is at the top of my very long career along with when one of my cadets, Cpl Matthew Roderick, opened the Cadet Debate in the House of Lords on the First World War - truly remarkable.
And that’s what the Air Training Corps (Royal Air Force Air Cadets) is all about - the MBE is something I will always be proud of but also the many cadets that I have met over the years for they have been my inspiration and my reward.”
Roger joined 277 (Blackwood) Squadron as a Cadet himself, aged 13, and attained the rank of Cadet Warrant Officer. He later became a Squadron OC before becoming a Wing Sports Officer and then being appointed as the Central Sector Commander in the Wing. He finally stood down as OC 277 Squadron after 40 years in command. Since then he has served as the president of No. 1 Welsh Wing Sports Council.
Considering what some might see as a “niche” activity, that is still a very good success rate, very well done for the continued inputs.
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Good for him.
But if you take a uk population of 66m and of that 40m is age elligable to be CFAV in the RAFAC.
40m divided by 2600 recipients per year equals 1 in 15000 people PER YEAR.
and that’s and this is a BIG if, every person in the uk is volunteering… which we know not even 5% do.
So really take away 95% of the 40m leaving 2m people and all of a sudden that’s… 1 in 769 people.
We dont even see more than 1 in 10000 volunteers get it.
So what the ‘flying actual’ is going on.
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Works out about 1 in 32 of mine have got through.
You’re forgetting on important factor…
We’re not in the military anymore.
We should be in the same volunteer group as scouts when it comes to the honors list. Instead of being hobnailed by an artificial number shared across the whole military.
They took our military commissions and they didnt realign anything else. Shoddy and a poor show.
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