Well I wasnt actually in engineering as such I was in transport but it comes under engineering wing or at least it used to. I signed up for 6 yrs when I was 16 and just left school. Your service doesnt actually start until you turn 18 so Id done 18 months before I oficially signed up. As a driver I was able to be posted to any unit that we had at the time. I did 3 yrs at Kinloss with nimrods 4 yrs in germany with the phantoms at Wildenrath and 3 yrs back in the uk on support staff at Cranwell and a year at Molesworth before becoming disillusioned and buying myself out. Having said that I loved every single minute of it.You make great friendships and travel all over the place and get paid for doing it
As an engineering officer with your qualifications you will almost be posted to a flying unit which means being based in the uk or cyprus or hong kong or possibly goose bay in Canada, plus of courese all the hot spots like the middle east ,afghainstan and possibly the balkans cos I think we still have a presence out there as part of u.n peacekeeping ops.Plus of course you ger to play with some of the coolest big boys toys you can imagine. One thing, careers info offices were always renowned for bullsh#tting when I was in so ask as much as you can and dont be afraid to ask again if you are not 100% with something, saying that if you have had the good sense to go for the R.A.F. you're not soft. Must go in a minute, off to work.
Good luck
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Cheers
Stew