EMERGING ISSUES
“Ex-Service personnel are not committing crimes shortly aſter leaving the plane from Helmand”
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he Independent on Sunday
has reported that one in ten prisoners is a veteran. The MoD said: “The number of ex-Service personnel in the criminal justice system in England and Wales is low at 3.4%”.
RAF FF’S SURVEY RESULTS
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he Federation has published the findings of two surveys, ‘The Nations
Support to the RAF’ and ‘Pay, Pensions and other Stuff ’. RAF serving personnel and their families made much comment. They are available on the RAF FF website.
50% INCREASE IN RESERVE FORCES
he Government has accepted the broad thrust of the six recommendations made in the
review of the UKs Reserve Forces. An additional £1.8bn is being invested in Reserve Forces over the next 10 years and the trained strength will grow by 50% by 2018. 1,800 in R Aux AF.
NAMED ATLAS K
nown only as the A400M, the aircraft was officially named Atlas at RIAT. The aircraft will
replace the C-130 Hercules fleet and with the Voyager and C-17 provide the UK military’s future air transport force. The first of 22 is expected to be delivered to the RAF in 2014.
CONFIRMING THE END OF RAF SAR
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SHADOW BFPO POST CODES
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hadow BFPO Post Codes’ have
been instigated by the Royal Mail to allow Service personnel overseas to enjoy the same access to goods and services as they do at home.
FREE EARLY LEARNING PLACES FOR (SOME) 2 YEAR OLDS
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he Government has confirmed that two-year-olds in England who live in households which
meet the eligibility criteria, will be entitled to a free early education place from Sep 13. The place is typically for 15 hours per week.
he Armed Forces Minister has confirmed that military provision of SAR cover of the
UK and Falkland Islands will end in Apr 16 with the retirement of the Sea King.
OUR STORIES IN RAF NEWS
I just want a House Dear RAF FF. I submitted my e-application for SFA weeks ago, but no-one can tell me when I might get a house. With my posting date fast approaching, I am worried sick about having no home as I know the SFA I am in is required by someone else.
Second-class citizens or what? Dear RAF FF, I bring to your attention the outrageous way I and other long-suffering family members have been treated by the RAF, which supposedly prides itself on caring for the whole RAF Family. After many years of holding a ‘dependant’s’ pass, an encounter with the RAF Police saw my pass taken away with no warning and no explanation, only that the policy had changed and these passes were no longer valid. It made me feel very much like a second-class citizen.
10 Envoy Autumn 2012
www.raf-ff.org.uk
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