Ccs mad policy??

[magic]

Due a standby guard so arranged the training. I was told I was in date CCS as I done it last year and it lasts for 2 years.
However, I have been OOA since so it only covers me for 1 year? Seems mad to me but there you go.

I asked where this was laid down and no one in the Regt Sectrion could tell me. I was told that if I had gone in to see them when I got back from OOA they would of upgraded my status so the CCS covered me for 2 years.
I was not told that when we done CCS.

I asked if they could upgrade it now for 2 years and was told 'no' as I have been back x amount of months. I cannot make any sense of this policy, if any fellow goaters could enlighten me were the sense of it is I would appreciate it. I cannot understand why it lasts for 2 years yet if you go OOA it reduces to one year?? Barking mad!

This is not a dig at the Rocks but at the policy.

 

[Oberon305]

Since when has CCS been every 2 years???

Last time I looked it was annual with WHT's every 6 months.

DT_Xtremez_35:

 

[monobrow]

Since when has CCS been every 2 years???

Last time I looked it was annual with WHT's every 6 months.

DT_Xtremez_35:

They shifted the goal posts (funnily enough) around 2 years ago so those who don't deploy regularly do it every 2 years whereas others who do remain annually.

 

[Drill Bit]

Since when has CCS been every 2 years???

Last time I looked it was annual with WHT's every 6 months.

DT_Xtremez_35:

Finger? Pulse? DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Oberon305]

Finger? Pulse? DT_Xtremez_30:

Pi$$ off DB!!!!! DT_Xtremez_14:

It comes from being at a unit where people go away......so it's Annual for everyone here!

I'd honestly never heard of that rule!

 

[gmacca]

When I was in Cyprus, Epi personnel had to do ccs at Aki on the same course as Aki people. The Aki guys were trained for 1 year at the end, the Epi guys for 2 years, due to different policies by the respective CO's. Crazy!

 

[Cooheed]

Non-deployable (med downgrades etc) are the only ones who doing every 2 years.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Non-deployable (med downgrades etc) are the only ones who doing every 2 years.

I was fully deployable and did it every 2 years at Wittering - ask anyone from the unit and they will say the same.

 

[Cooheed]

I was fully deployable and did it every 2 years at Wittering - ask anyone from the unit and they will say the same.

It is not the first time I have seen units 'misinterpreting' policy to give themselves an easier life.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

It is not the first time I have seen units 'misinterpreting' policy to give themselves an easier life.

Being as a lot of the units at Wittering deployed frequently, it didn't really matter - just kept down on the paperwork!

If only it had applied to fitness tests! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[duffman]

When I worked in a bay it was 2 years, seemed to be across the station as well. Regiment flight said it was to free up space to teach an increasing amount of IDT courses.

 

[kev827]

with all these changes and different units having different rules and regs, why do we still do it? Is the current format still valid? Do we still need to do the chamber? Over to the floor-----

 

[sparks will fly]

ISK is every year yet a fife base is every 2 years!!!!!

 

[snowball1]

ISK is every year yet a fife base is every 2 years!!!!!

You have nothing else to do at ISK!

 

[MontyPlumbs]

You have nothing else to do at ISK!

Quality mate, just quality! DT_Xtremez_14:DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Digzster]

I too have been on the brunt of this. Nobody can give me a definitive answer.

Wish things were back to being nice & simple.

 

[monobrow]

I too have been on the brunt of this. Nobody can give me a definitive answer.

If your at readyness state 6 or above was the answer I got. Now, where to find these readyness states...

 

[sparks will fly]

You have nothing else to do at ISK!

NLS / MMS / aircrew maybe but not us geffriesDT_Xtremez_30:

 

[feckinG RANT]

This is something that has been bugging me too. If a policy is in place to carry out every two years unless deploying then why not use it? If you're car service is every year you don't do it every six months just in case do you?

GR4 camp in Scotland - every year, GR4 camp in Norfolk - every two! Both jobs the same, i.e 2nd line on-aircraft maint.

My management have defended their actions of every year (as I believe it is them that have chosen every year) as we are deployable. Yes, but then so are most others.

IMHO, if you are in regular deployed ops (i.e. repeatedly every 6/9/12 months or whatever) then every year. If you're deployable but don't go on a regular repeat deployment (i.e. DWR for 4 months or other adhoc non-routine deployment) then every two.

Can anyone give any clear guidance on where the policy is please?

 

[duffman]

GR4 camp in Scotland - every year, GR4 camp in Norfolk - every two! Both jobs the same, i.e 2nd line on-aircraft maint.

Not quite I think the people in AMF and CMU are on different readiness states. AMF bods tend to do more Tonka work from their MOB as opposed to CMU which do bits and bobs but not as much.