Any service RAF personnel on here ?

[stewie]

Actually I know there is but having seeing the recent adverts for the RAF reserve I was wondering what serving guys though of the reserve ?

[appollo1]

If i tell you then I'll have to hurt you!!!! :smt070

[Dave20046]

Slightly off topic but is it actually a decent job? I very almost joined but got offered a different job first.

[appollo1]

very similar to the army equivalent TA i believe where they still get sent to war but get paid a full time wage - ahem - i read that somewhere honest :rolleyes:

[Dave20046]

very similar to the army equivalent TA i believe where they still get sent to war but get paid a full time wage - ahem - i read that somewhere honest :rolleyes:
ah I meant the RAF in general not the reserves. I'm preferably after place with minimum getting killedness. Anyway I'll shush now don;t want to derail the whole thread sorry stewie.

[Jinxy43]

Is that the advert, of the guys in the bunker in the middle east.

If so I have spotted a couple of mistakes, that currently employed Raf personnel could clear up for me (or just tell me I am sad)

1) Is blue uniform now current issue for Hot weather conditions.

2) Since when did the albatross in the badge become a eagle

3) When did the Raf purchase a jet that can change shape (Harrier GR7(fast sweeping shot) to Tornado Gr4 (drops the paveway 3 LGB))


Just an ex crab wondering if times have really change in the 3 months I have been a civvy

[Von Teese]

My ex boyfriend was in the RAF, he hated it ...A LOT!
He left! I can get him to contact you but he wont be complimentary about it at all.

[Richie]

can't be that bad, RAF... easy life

[punyXpress]

Isn't there a job going with the spooks just up the road from here ( A169) ?

[Bluefish]

RAF= cushti

[stewie]

My ex boyfriend was in the RAF, he hated it ...A LOT!
He left! I can get him to contact you but he wont be complimentary about it at all.

No its ok ,thanks for the offer though :D Im ex RAF meself, I got out in the 80,s though when it was still regarded as a decent career, I just dont remember ever working with anyone from the RAF reserve that all and now they are advertising on the telly I just wondered what the regulars thought of the weekend warriors, I was also suprised to see on the website you could enlist up to the age of 50 or 55 if you had any past military experience, btw the oldest serviceman to die in Afghanistan was a 53 yrs senior aicraftsman with the RAF Regiment, thanks for the replies anyway :)

[Von Teese]

Probably just exactly the same as Special Constables....but they dont get paid for anything except their petrol to and from the station.

[Geoffrey]

can't be that bad, RAF... easy life
RAF= cushti
sums it up quite well; unless you choose a decent trade.

the reserves are regarded well within the RAF, unlike the pongos (army) who do not like the fact someone off the street working a lot less than half their time is actually equal or better than them.

[lukemillar]

can't be that bad, RAF... easy life

That's what they say about the guy who fixes tanks :wink: