Ex stacker thinking of rejoining

[ExStacker]

Hi all

I left the RAF Jan 08 and am looking into re enlisting. I have requested my discharge papers from JPA as I need them before I can go back to AFCO.

Just wondering if I will kit and post or go back to do the full basic?

I will be looking at rejoining as the same trade (stacker)

Anyone recently rejoined? How longs the process take and what do I have to do? Any new tests or retake fitness test or does that all get sorted at the unit if I kit and post?

Cheers

 

[busby1971]

Try the recruiting forums

Try the recruiting forums

There's an egoater coughed up to being a recruiter in the recruiting forums, give him a shout.

 

[FeedTheYak]

Hi ExStacker,

You are right about needing your discharge certificate. Not sure you get it off JPA though. You will need the ones that were given/sent to you after you left.
Its a good time to join back up as a stacker, cause its a pinch point trade at the moment.
You will have to go through the whole AFCO process again unfortunately. Your previous AST scores are still valid, so you dont need to do them again.
You will need to be interviwed, medical and fitness tested. You may well have to do a Pre Joining Visit to Halton aswell (2-3 day visit).
Im sure that you will be kit and posted, but thats upto manning Im afraid, nothing to do with AFCO staff.
AFCO staff will try and get you in asap, hope this helps.

 

[ExStacker]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Got my discharge certificate from JPA, took a week to arrive.

Also got a new badge too, a Veterans badge in a little jewelry box, how cool

Spoke to AFCO and seeing as I want to rejoin as same trade should take about 5-6 weeks to get back in.

I'll keep you posted DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Mad Dog]

I was at a Trade Sponsors briefing last week and this very topic came up. She said that if it had been under a year since you left you would be kitted CCS, fit tested and posted, however since it has been more than a year since you left you will probably have to go through the whole RTS thing again. Good luck if you go ahead with it

 

[MattBombHead]

As Mad Dog says, anything upto a year is 'kit and post', after that, you reallya re looking at the full 9 weeks.

But, being as you know the score, whats expected, and know all about the light at the end of the tunnel, you really should have no problems at all.

Good luck with your rejoining...

DT_Xtremez_14:DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[tacadmin]

As Mad Dog says, anything upto a year is 'kit and post', after that, you reallya re looking at the full 9 weeks.

But, being as you know the score, whats expected, and know all about the light at the end of the tunnel, you really should have no problems at all.

Good luck with your rejoining...

DT_Xtremez_14:DT_Xtremez_30:

Don't want to sound 'smug' or anything, but <2 years means you only have to do kit & post, so just pray you have no problems with anything and manage to join before Jan 2010! That could happen....... training slots even for Pinch Point trades are full up to end of November. Trust me when I say the RAF no longer has a recruitment issue.

 

[Greavsie84]

Destroyed discharge certificate

Destroyed discharge certificate

My missus destroyed my discharge certificate, (long story) is it possible to get a new one as i want to re-join!DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[Deano8123]

Another Stacker Rejoing!!

Another Stacker Rejoing!!

Yes Yes!!! I know it's all gone ****e and it's not what it use to be but i think it's worth anther go, plus I like the time off and free gym!!

Anyway,

I spoke to AFCO and told them my situation. I did a 9 year stint and pvr'd and now want to rejoin as the same trade.

I am rapidly getting close to my 2 year out point. (21 sept 2009).

I've been told that within two years it's a kit and post after ccs, fit tests.
but i've also been told my trade is currently closed but could be opening again soon.

dont fancy doing the whole RTS thing again!! At 28 not sure i wouldn't get ****ed off with some snotty nose teenage prick and end up on a charge in the first two weeks!!

If i do get back in before the 21st as a stacker what kind of length of service would they offer me?? and would time served still go towards the pension.

also does anybody know the score with rank and pay scale?? was on top whack lower sac level when i left would it be the same.

If Anybody in the manning or admin world could help it would be great.

cheers

Please don't take this **** to much, been a **** couple of years!!

Ta,

 

[156]

dont fancy doing the whole RTS thing again!! At 28 not sure i wouldn't get ****ed off with some snotty nose teenage prick and end up on a charge in the first two weeks!!

I hear you there mate. I have to go to RTS [guin], im going to be 28 when i go there. Im worried that ill end up on jankers or something. That 9 weeks is going to be a pain, but siht what can we do about it... sweet F.A

 

[psycho-fluffy]

I did the full RTS at 33 years 5 months after 13 years in civvie street.

No it wasn't easy but that was mainly because of my sense of humour failures over the difference between what was expected of us and what I expected of us.

The only things that kept me going were:

1. The RAF Regt at IGDT for their irrepressible sense of humour.

2. The fact that when I phoned my husband he told me I couldn't come home.

As it is I have been back "in" for ten years and haven't regreted it yet.

Alll my previous service counts towards my pension. the only downside was that I transferred from the WRNS to the RAF so I am still really REALLY bad at RAF drill.

P-F