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Envoy – The magazine of the RAF Families Federation, published 4 times a year.
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Emerging Issues ...........................................................................................................7 Features
Bid for Olympic Glory .................................................................................................10 Work Never Sleeps .....................................................................................................12 Things were Different in My Day .................................................................................14 The Military in Britain .................................................................................................16 Encounter with the RAF Widows Association ...............................................................18
REGULARS Federation News
Outcomes of First Survey of 2012 ...............................................................................20 Education
New Schools Bursary Scheme for all Ranks ..................................................................23
Health & Wellbeing Mental Wellbeing – Where to Turn .............................................................................24 Separation Anxiety .....................................................................................................26
Housing Trouble at the HASC ...................................................................................................28 Redundancy and your SFA ..........................................................................................29
Money
Simon Cowell is Not the Only One with X Factor .........................................................30 Stuck in a Pension Trough? .........................................................................................32
In the Workplace Time to Pack the Bags ................................................................................................34 Courage ....................................................................................................................35 The Inner Workings of the RCDM’s Clinical Unit ...........................................................36 RAF Association funds support to the Sick and Injured .................................................38
Community
A New Breed of WAG .................................................................................................39 Family Carer Support ..................................................................................................40 Getting a Job .............................................................................................................41
You and the RAF Working for the RAF Community .................................................................................42
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