Complete logjam on Regt. promotion courses. Very negative, flt filling up at the bottom, with no JNCO advancement. Seniors doing the best they can to cover for the weaknesses in the system but this is just papering the cracks and is relying on the good will of all those concerned to keep this moving. This represents biggest threat to retention within the flt at the moment.
The training is haphazard at best. I am a former military police, current civil police - all told, 17 years in police - and there are NO courses available for me to find personal improvement and challenge. I am not used to assist in training new students, which is a waste of skills and knowledge.
Each year of service there are more “”essential requirements”” training wise to fulfil for bounty - this will certainly affect retention in future - the harder the RAF makes life for its reserves, the less reserves, it will attract.
The availability of training courses doesn’t seem to be well structured or communicated currently. I know that we are struggling with FT courses for our more senior SAC’s and our JNCO’s which is frustrating them and indicates to us that RAuxAF isn’t the priority that it was suggested it would be though the recent changes.
More clarification on learning credits would be beneficial. Should reservists be eligible for these, it would offer up further opportunities for deployment (i.e. language courses, etc.)
Image caption: A reservist Gunner with 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron, Royal Auxilliary Air Force fires a machine gun during two weeks Annual Continuous Training at Hythe Range Complex. RAF Photographer. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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