Thought I'd beat Renton to this one.....
Am currently serving on an Army camp as a ten man team of munitions specialists. We have a Chief in charge. We exist alongside civvies and Army ammo "techs".
The Army use us as their personal bitches and take us away from our trade work to make up for their chronic lack of suppliers.
Recently there has been a new RSM who seems a very bored man who now sees us as the Army, he wants us in greens (we know that won't happen in a hurry) and has us taking part in Battle P.T, boot runs, stretcher runs, Army fitness tests, Army Military Skills training et al.
Our chief (bless him) is out soon and seems reluctant to rock the boat. We the junior ranks are at an all time morale low and would like to talk to someone with some "clout" to give us some back up to say "actually, these guys aren't Army, they're RAF and they are perfectly capable of organising their own P.T. and have no need for Army military training as they carry out CCS each year".
We are all aware that we are indeed military. However, we wear BLUE and that is very much deliberate. We would appreciate any help as there is a very high percentage of extremely unhappy individuals who are all now even considering some of the less desirable posts in the Armament community, PVRing or re-mustering - such is the pitiful level of morale.
Please help before Renton explodes!!!
Am currently serving on an Army camp as a ten man team of munitions specialists. We have a Chief in charge. We exist alongside civvies and Army ammo "techs".
The Army use us as their personal bitches and take us away from our trade work to make up for their chronic lack of suppliers.
Recently there has been a new RSM who seems a very bored man who now sees us as the Army, he wants us in greens (we know that won't happen in a hurry) and has us taking part in Battle P.T, boot runs, stretcher runs, Army fitness tests, Army Military Skills training et al.
Our chief (bless him) is out soon and seems reluctant to rock the boat. We the junior ranks are at an all time morale low and would like to talk to someone with some "clout" to give us some back up to say "actually, these guys aren't Army, they're RAF and they are perfectly capable of organising their own P.T. and have no need for Army military training as they carry out CCS each year".
We are all aware that we are indeed military. However, we wear BLUE and that is very much deliberate. We would appreciate any help as there is a very high percentage of extremely unhappy individuals who are all now even considering some of the less desirable posts in the Armament community, PVRing or re-mustering - such is the pitiful level of morale.
Please help before Renton explodes!!!