What is the single aspect of your Reserve Air Force experience that gives you the most satisfaction?
Other: • Working with other highly trained committed reservists • Being part of HM Armed Forces • My mates/ Camaraderie • The ability to remain part of the RAF having left the Regulars • Being able to deploy • Travel
• When I do have an opportunity to work with the Regulars forces, or to serve on Operations, it is the feeling that I am actively contributing to the delivery of Air Power and making a difference (albeit a small one, perhaps)
• Serving my country in my own limited way in my own personal time
• Nothing - I do intend to leave - I expected it to be “the training I receive” But I’m afraid it has not worked out, to date. Closest is “working with regulars”
• The knowledge that I have made a real contribution to operations
What is the single aspect of your Reserve Air Force experience that gives you the least satisfaction?
Other: • Poor administration • Very poor facilities and lack of facilities being open when we are in on weekends • The differences that still remain between regulars and reservists re pay, allowances and pensions • The problems fitting it in
• The disparity between the way paramedics and nurses are treated, paid and employed will eventually cause the loss of paramedics to Army Reserve units. Given that a basic paramedic is treated as at least an equal to a basic nurse in terms of remuneration within the NHS, the RAF are failing to recognise the quality of some of their paramedic staff who in the NHS are employed at a level higher than nurses. Whilst it is clearly an edict from on-high, it will result in the loss of staff over time
• Lack of available resources at unit level at weekends such as open shops bars etc
• Having to take time off work to do things which could be organised at weekends e.g. fitness test, IRT Mod 1, tailors for fitting of No1 uniform
• Long recruitment process nearly gave up
• The lack of use of my skills and expertise in anything other than backfilling or posts that cannot be filled by regulars as there is a shortage within the JHC of SO2 manpower
• Limited opportunity for AT • The amount of time outside of the advertised commitment I must spend to remain up to date • The total lack of career management • My employer
• Returning from ROIT, where I was very active learning about Leadership and the roles of an RAF Officer and unfortunately feeling on return to normal Sqn activity an anti-climax
• Fitting courses around my civilian job • Lack of use of the skills we’re taught. Lack of faith in us • The lack of transferrable qualifications • Limited opportunity for promotion • Lack of issued kit to carry out duties • The dismal accommodation when you give up your weekend to attend training • What we are for is poorly defined
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