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RAF Wainfleet bombing range will close



Published Date:
17 November 2009
Tuesday, 2.18pm - RAF Wainfleet bombing range is closing, the Ministry of Defence has now confirmed.
The last flying day will be on Thursday, December 3, but the actual closure of the range will take a little longer.

So, close Wainfleet. Coningsby next.
Sort of makes as much sense as closing the range because apart from shooting up the farmers, where else will they get to practice?
 
hazmat said:
RAF Wainfleet bombing range will close



Published Date:
17 November 2009
Tuesday, 2.18pm - RAF Wainfleet bombing range is closing, the Ministry of Defence has now confirmed.
The last flying day will be on Thursday, December 3, but the actual closure of the range will take a little longer.

So, close Wainfleet. Coningsby next.
Sort of makes as much sense as closing the range because apart from shooting up the farmers, where else will they get to practice?
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The amount of dosh that's been spent here, I wouldn't be surprised.:PDT_Xtremez_34:
 
Ways to trim off some dead wood.....

Ways to trim off some dead wood.....

Introducing higher fitness levels, closing stations, reducing aircraft orders the list goes on.
However the real problem with the RAF will never be resolved. why? Because the people who make these vital decisions are the very people who never seem to find themselves without a job after the cuts. And who would put themselves out of a job?
I refer to the commissioned personnel. I have never heard of hundreds (never mind thousands) of commissioned officers being offered a lump sum and a hand shake on their way out of the door. Yet any wanderings into a building bearing the letters 'H' and 'Q' on their plaque will result in you holding a door open for numerous people wielding bar codes on their shoulders.
Indeed I am sure that the RAF requires a certain amount of commissioned management, but does it really need so many? And more importantly, do they need to continue to pay (often at a similar annual wage, if not greater) them in retirement?
Obviously there are not the numbers of commissioned personnel to match the non-commissioned numbers but why no consideration of cutting down the 'old boys' network and their 'generous' pay rolls?
Level 9-10 at 50 anyone?
 
Another worrying fact is all this talk of cuts and job losses at the last place where its needed and the higher echolons have not came out and tried to calm the situation. A lot of people are very worried and questions are getting asked but there is no answer from the top 1) because they are too scared too or more than likely 2) something big is going on and they are keeping things close to there chest.

Any ideas ?
 
BillyBunter said:
Another worrying fact is all this talk of cuts and job losses at the last place where its needed and the higher echolons have not came out and tried to calm the situation. A lot of people are very worried and questions are getting asked but there is no answer from the top 1) because they are too scared too or more than likely 2) something big is going on and they are keeping things close to there chest.

Any ideas ?
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Yes they have. Read the latest IBN. I will post the number when I get to work...
 
hazmat said:
RAF Wainfleet bombing range will close



Published Date:
17 November 2009
Tuesday, 2.18pm - RAF Wainfleet bombing range is closing, the Ministry of Defence has now confirmed.
The last flying day will be on Thursday, December 3, but the actual closure of the range will take a little longer.

So, close Wainfleet. Coningsby next.
Sort of makes as much sense as closing the range because apart from shooting up the farmers, where else will they get to practice?
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Maybe if Holbeach and Donna Nook went as well.
 
WTF is the government playing at?! More cut backs after the damning report on the Nimrod XV230 crash?! What ever happened to front line first? Sounds like they are still counting pennies and sod the rest.

Get ready to get shafted boys!!!:PDT_Xtremez_35:
 
OK, correct me if I'm wrong but the Government are happy to waste hundreds of thousands of pounds on expenses (that is of course until they were found out), they pay 50k pa in benefits to a mother of 14 and we are the ones that have to give!! WTF! Granted we do have Stations that could/should be closed, however didn't they plan to shut Scampton, sold of the quarters and then realised that it still had a use....but oh no we don't have any quarters! Leeming has 90SU now, Cottesmore has new housing being built, Wittering has Logistics, I could go on. The Herc fleet from Lyneham is moving to Brize, however Lyneham is then being handed to the Pongos, so surely that just moves the budget from the RAF to the Army, saving the MOD what exactly!? 31,000 in the RAF, I have just read the Hampton Roads Daily (local American paper) in which they state the US is planning to send an additional 30,000 to Afghanistan (almost the size of our proposed RAF), how the hell is that right!
 
St Mawgan...

St Mawgan...

So is there any truth in the Times Article regarding making St Mawgan a large training unit? Or just more rumours...
 
I was under the impression that particular change had already come to pass - all they're doing with it now is adding to what is taught there, basically creating more mega-stations so that they can close the smaller ones where nobody wants to work or live, like up north, or marham....
:PDT_Xtremez_42::PDT_Xtremez_30:

(...that was a joke people, just kidding, I've nothing against anywhere that you lot might count as 'northern'... although I could well be right about Marham...)
 
RAF St Mawgan is already a training establishment for the Tri Service Survival school. (I can't remember its real title but if you can get on the defence intranet you can look it up).
:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
It is the SERE School, although that is the only thing keeping RAF St Mawgan open. JMF has relocated to the States and the runway was handed over to the Council!
 
MrMasher said:
Where are they building those then? I haven't seen them building new houses here.
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Ok not on camp, but right outside....close enough to make it a waste of money for the developers should Cottesmore close!
 
duffman said:
Part of Cyprus looks to be getting the chop as well.
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About time too, some of them have had too much of an easy life for too many years.

Friend of mine recently came back from a 3 year tour, to call it a holiday camp doesnt come close.
 
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