Royal Air Force and Military News.

For those of you that like to moan, here is the latest new years honours list.... https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/royal-air-force-new-year-honours-list-2020/

Eight years after Nimrod, Poseidon has finally landed... http://news.sky.com/story/first-of-rafs-new-russian-submarine-hunters-arrives-in-scotland-11926294

Anyone from Wittering on here? If so, and you’re part of the pilot scheme, what’s the score?

If you’ve served you are going to get cheaper rail travel! Read about it here...we have to wait until 11th November though! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51201885

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50976302 Read the article. Richard has my dream job....sits around the tbar drinking 30 brews a day. Sign me up!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7830845/Images-armed-forces-taken-2019.html Some nice pics and maybe the odd bit of dark room trickery but well worth a trawl through.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/family-piano-given-to-raf-base-burnt-in-military-ceremony-by-mistake-drl508t3c

The head line is claim against British Army. Seems SGT A was confused with Sgt B because of ethnicity. But the text reads like it's not just brown jobs involved. Flt Lt writing reports about events he wasn't even present for Oh surely not. "Sgt Date was left confused after he was branded in an assessment as being 'badly prepared' and 'heavily reliant on course notes' in a class he hadn't taught. After realising he had been confused for Sgt Rashid, he angrily rang the officer who wrote the report, named in the tribunal as Flight Lt Taylor, accusing him of racism. Flight Lt Taylor claimed he had been confused by what classroom the training session had been taking place in. However the tribunal found it was unlikely Flight Lt Taylor was...

Something we already know has again been researched by a group of military "experts". Russia has more troops, more guns, more missiles in fact more everything and if we took them on it wouldn't end well https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50567271 What next studies to show that at room temperature water is a liquid.

Words fail me or in the case of the WO2, "Where's there's blame, there's a claim" no doubt. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714853/Army-Major-40-horrified-soldier-slapping-bottom-court-martial-hears.html Major was in the wrong, no doubt about it in this day and age, but Court Martial?! What happened to "Sir, you are out of order"? Wasn't a very wise decision by the Major, but how is the Warrant Officer going to cope in a War zone if a slap on the arse causes him this much trauma?

Anyone on the work intraweb this week read the article?

This is for the slack handful of posters still in.... ;) Went to a pensions brief today and the quick summary of the 3 options presented to the treasury after the judges ruling is thus.... 1. Transfer everyone back to their old schemes and they stay on them. 2. Transfer those that didn't move to '15 to the '15 scheme. So it levels the playing field. 3. Offer a choice to stay as you are or transfer back to the old scheme.

Hundreds turn up for funeral of RAF veteran Hundreds turned out yesterday for the funeral of 100 year old RAF veteran Oswald Dixon who had no family in the UK. Oswald came over from Jamaica and served as a RAF mechanic in the 2nd world war. Well done to all who turned out.

Chatting to old friends today about times past and this led to us pondering are there any Appo's still serving? I was orderly Cpl when the 153's left and it's more than 20 years since the 155 's graduated so there can't be many left in uniform surely? A handful maybe.

Aussie guys doing a fly by through the city of Brisbane. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7525137/Australian-warplanes-weave-way-Brisbane-skyscrapers.html H+S would have a nuclear hissy fit if we tried it here but it is impressive.

Not much chatter about it on here, anyone claiming their 5k? Or less depending on the qual you have? I will be, cher-ching!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48607943 An interesting read and few points paraphrased from the article. 49% of those who entered Sandhurst in January came from fee-paying schools. The Royal Navy, which saw 64% of its officer cadets entering Dartmouth, from state schools. The Royal Air Force says 35% of its officer cadets entering Cranwell College in March had previously served in the ranks and its doesn’t monitor educational background. The last Army chief of the general staff to have been taught at a state school was in the early 1950s. Yet the very top jobs in the RAF and RN have recently been given to men educated at state schools. There is a roughly 50/50 split of schools with a Combined Cadet Forces (CCF) 194 private schools have...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/9697766/raf-airmen-beards-for-first-time/amp

Whilst putting the PUMA's "to bed" it seems the crew moving them around had a slight mishap!! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7318333/RAFs-multi-million-pound-vital-helicopters-grounded-bad-parking.html Nice pics of the aftermath.

If you were considering extending your standard 4 year FTRS contract to 9 as per the norm, you can now forget it. It seems that someone up in the plane-less world of paper had a bit of a panic, realised FTRS was expanding faster than he/she thought and reduced contracts to a max of 5 years including extensions. Effective 01 July though you'd be forgiven for thinking someone was trying to keep it a secret. Of course, all these people fill positions and these positions still need filling - but I guess they haven't reached that cognitive level yet.