Non Serving Family Responses uNon-Serving Life in the RAF


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• Secure employment is again by far the biggest retention factor at 35%


• 40% stated issues surrounding their own employment opportunities as the hardest aspect of RAF Life


45% believe they do not have a good work/life family balance • 62% thought their partner should leave now or at the next engagement point


• 25% said the short notice nature of deployments and assignments have the greatest impact on the family


• 37% would not recommend the RAF Way of Life (up 6% on Serving) • 52% stated it was difficult or very difficult for the serving person to take leave to meet family plans • 62% are enjoying life in the RAF


‘RAF life has been more disorganised than I could ever have imagined… Communication is next to non-existent, everything seems to change at the drop of a hat and don’t even get me started on CarillionAmey. I don’t expect or want a life of luxury by any means, but it would be nice to know where we stand, what is going on, and have our boiler fixed when it’s broken! I think many more people would be interested in service life if they had more of a choice about where they were stationed. People expect to be deployed and I think we’re mostly OK with that, but moving your entire life every few years is painful and frankly unnecessary.’


‘I love the military life, I was an army child and now a RAF wife. I think living together builds a better understanding of family situations which you wouldn’t get with people who aren’t serving families. Without married quarters I don’t think my husband would stay in.’


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