Backgrounds of people joining RAF REGT

[jerrymaguire]

Hi...just wondered what the backgrounds are generally of people joining different RAF (aux) regiment squadrons professions/jobs and walks of life etc? Am a graduate in a professional job and hope that if I join, this wouldn't make me stand out or cause any inverted snobbery....

 

[Tashy_Man]

Hi...just wondered what the backgrounds are generally of people joining different RAF (aux) regiment squadrons professions/jobs and walks of life etc? Am a graduate in a professional job and hope that if I join, this wouldn't make me stand out or cause any inverted snobbery....

Oh FFS you wanna join the auggies....if you can't take a bit of **** take then this job aint for you. End of..................

Crack on.........................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[R_Squared]

Hi...just wondered what the backgrounds are generally of people joining different RAF (aux) regiment squadrons professions/jobs and walks of life etc? Am a graduate in a professional job and hope that if I join, this wouldn't make me stand out or cause any inverted snobbery....

No more than you may get in any other walk of life to be honest.

Tashy is right (although never subtle) you may expect banter though, but it may have nothing to do with your professional life.

 

[Talk Wrench]

Just be yourself. Simple as that.



TW

 

[Nec Aspera Terrent]

Just ensure that the first thing you say isn't...

Am a graduate in a professional job...

No one likes a show-off!

 

[stripey999]

In the mid 80s I was on the permanent staff of an RAuxAF Regt Sqn and there was a pathologist on the Sqn. Many times she was asked to go for a commission but she wanted to be "one of the lads". There was a photographer (who did go to the dark side) a farmer and various driver/laborer/unemployed types.
There was no snobery other than that caused by the photographer himself that thought he was "special". The guys themselves were fine and through the old boy network resulted in many getting discounts from those that were tradesmen in their real jobs.

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

It dosen't matter what their background is
Once you join you are all RAF Regiment Gunners and you have your rank and so does everyone else
What you do in civ div can be disscussed at the bar afterwards and you will find there is all walks of life
In the T.A . I met people more qualified than the Sqn Leader who were happy to be troopers and soldier on
Your or their background dosen't even need to be disscussed

Two tales from Telic

One lad a manager in civ div attached to the HCR got a bollocking off a three bar
"Whats up Phil"
"That C*@t talking to me like I'm some fukcing trooper"
"You are a fukcing trooper"

One lad arrived at Chillwell in an Aston Martin (his) in an effort to prove how mauch he earned, he appealed and won "hardship" allowence which reportedly put him on more than the Sqn Leader a Major (but not as much as a techie CPL)

Just get on with it who care who does what if you go on Ops and the RPG's and bullets are flying a truck driver is as good as a rocket scientist on a jimpy

 

[POB]

I was involved with the Auggies at Cottesmore a few years ago. There were teachers, two auctioneers, labourers, plasterers and many others. Don't worry about your back ground. As someone else said, when you're in the bar afterwards you will get to talking, and get discounts and advice that you just wouldn't in your normal line of work. (Just about everyone at Cott at the time had a need for a plasterer, and he helped out a lot.) I believe it's called "networking!"