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izitme said:
Any truth in the rumour that an education officer is going to be filling an Ops Officers Appointment in a very busy Ops room in a sandy place in the new year?
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I have heard the same, apparently she goes out in the New Year. Cant wait to see how the credibility of our branch goes with this one.

Are we that undermanned as Ops Officers that this needs to happen?
 
OpsWallah said:
I have heard the same, apparently she goes out in the New Year. Cant wait to see how the credibility of our branch goes with this one.

Are we that undermanned as Ops Officers that this needs to happen?
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Yeah that fits in with what i have heard - says it all really about the state of the "nation"
 
Marshall of the RAF's point was that until v recently fast jet Sqns (at least the 2 types he & I were involved in) didn't have any Ops Officers to decode/overlook the decoding of the ACO & ATO. It was probably the same for him, but it was only after TELIC 1 (when the ATO was considerably longer than 120 pages (didn't print it all tho!)) that the Sqns were able to download the ATO & ACO onto their own mission planning computers (got Falconview on my Sqn after I deployed).

His point was that pre-TELIC, all those jobs fell to the Squintos, who are now happy to divide up what are Ops functions and pass them across, to allow us to concentrate on what is our bread and butter.
 
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Here's a bit of gen re the Educater (TDO) in the sand.

The OpsO in the story has reduced her responsibility on the sqn from the level of her predecessor.

The TDO doesn't do any educating on the sqn, but is the Sqn Adjt and also does a few of the jobs that the old OpsO used to do - consequently, ops isn't alien.

The post in the sand is run by JHC not PMA.

In the grand scheme of things, JHC hasn't got a great deal of OpsO's, consequently that post can and has been filled from anywhere in the Cmd - even by Navy IntO's.

The sqn concerned has been instructed to fill the post for 4 months.

The OpsO completed a 4 monther in the same location (but not a rotary post) less than a year ago - understandably, quite reluctant to go again so soon.

The sqn has managed the situation internally by splitting the 4 months between the 2 offrs.

Rightly or wrongly, these are the facts.

I leave you to make your own mind up.

Personally. I think it wrong but you must agree you can see how it's arisen.
 
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