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  1. Dan_Brown

    Interesting pic of the modern RAF

    I'm confused.
  2. Dan_Brown

    New IBN - DLE, KPI's

    Yey! New IBN dated 4 Sep 23 - a review of mandatory learning has been undertaken and in force WIE: RAF FT dates extended Most expiry dates extended to 3yrs+ Some courses no longer mandatory, but 'strongly encouraged'. There are literally days i am spending doing only courses or uploading and...
  3. Dan_Brown

    DCAS AM Rich Maddison

    Has anyone else seen Rich's letter and the reply from CAS? Or are we tactfully avoiding this? I won't post the letter/reply unless the mods think its acceptable - but for those that have seen them, thoughts? (it's out there on Social Media) It certainly shows he is a bad way, but has...
  4. Dan_Brown

    Top Guns - Inside the RAF

    Episode 1 out, anybody watch? I thought it was pretty good - although we came across as a bit of bimbling feckwits. Lots of swearing, people making mistakes, tripping up steps - lol. Jets going tits and no one knowing why. Hardly showing us as a professional fighting force. Although you could...
  5. Dan_Brown

    Forces Pension Society - no longer provide forecasts

    Had some disappointing news from the FPS. I submitted a pension forecast to them, something i have done 3 times in the past several years, and they would reply giving: Spreadsheet with all the different options. Actual figures of what each option was. An explanation of the figures. This was...
  6. Dan_Brown

    All Bond movies including No Time to Die now free with Amazon Prime

    That's Easter viewing sorted Amazon.co.uk : 007 james bond movies
  7. Dan_Brown

    Daily Fail:Labour shadow Foreign Secretary praises calls for British Army to be replaced with a 'gender-balanced human security force'.

    Non-article, but had to post :) "suggested replacing Britain’s Armed Forces with a ‘gender-balanced human security’ corps." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9180175/Labours-Lisa-Nandy-fresh-woke-row-praising-report-claiming-UK-no-longer-great-power.html?ito=native_share_article-top
  8. Dan_Brown

    British Army will slash hundreds of jobs despite Boris Johnson's pledge to pump an extra £16.5bn into the UK's defences, leaked documents reveal

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9071715/British-Army-slash-hundreds-jobs-leaked-documents-reveal.html?ito=whatsapp_share_article-masthead "But documents seen by The Mail on Sunday show a major job-cutting review is under way in the Adjutant General's Corps, although Army sources said...
  9. Dan_Brown

    WFH Tax Relief

    Not financial advice, but is everyone aware you can claim tax back on £6 per week from 23 Mar 2020, even if you have only worked one day from home. Works out at £62.40 for the year and all persons WFH can claim the tax relief: https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home...
  10. Dan_Brown

    The RAF - No room for 'Guys'

    Last week WO Sara Catterall, Command Senior Enlisted Leader at NATO AIRCOM, RAF Diversity Ally & Gender Advisor (try fitting that on a name-tag) announced via Twitter that RAF personnel should refrain from using the term 'guys' when addressing groups of people (post since archived by her). Her...
  11. Dan_Brown

    Serving Soldier (maybe!) Refusing to Soldier

    Serving soldier or bollocks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBZ3Ac0wg8&feature=emb_logo...
  12. Dan_Brown

    First RAF Reg female officers graduate

    https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/first-raf-regiment-female-officers-graduate/
  13. Dan_Brown

    Armed Forces personnel to receive 2% pay rise

    Service personnel in the UK will receive an above inflation 2% pay rise this year, in recognition of the vital work they do every day protecting the country. Continue reading...
  14. Dan_Brown

    Homeserve for NHS and Social Care employees - free

    FYI post: if you work for the NHS or work in social care and you have an emergency plumbing or heating issue please call HomeServe - You dont need a policy, they will simply send an engineer out to fix the problem - For FREE!! https://www.homeserve.com/uk Standing by for posts: Homeserve are...
  15. Dan_Brown

    Family piano given to RAF base burnt in military ceremony by mistake

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/family-piano-given-to-raf-base-burnt-in-military-ceremony-by-mistake-drl508t3c
  16. Dan_Brown

    Army Major, 40, is convicted of battery for slapping a soldier's bottom so hard it shook 'quite vigorously'

    Words fail me or in the case of the WO2, "Where's there's blame, there's a claim" no doubt. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714853/Army-Major-40-horrified-soldier-slapping-bottom-court-martial-hears.html Major was in the wrong, no doubt about it in this day and age, but Court...
  17. Dan_Brown

    RAFP Walt - why?!

    I know men want to be us and we're pantie droppers for the women - but this guy....................... https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/thomas-old-of-darby/
  18. Dan_Brown

    Pay Rise 2019

    https://news.sky.com/story/public-sector-workers-to-receive-biggest-pay-rise-in-six-years-11766122 2.9% (maybe )
  19. Dan_Brown

    Public Sector Pension Ruling and the Armed Forces

    On 15 July the Government issued a statement in response to the Court of Appeal’s ruling against it in the McCloud case (the challenge by firefighters and judges to the transitional arrangements that accompanied their new 2015 pensions schemes) and the subsequent Supreme Court decision to...
  20. Dan_Brown

    Med Board

    I have been downgraded for the past 2 years and now been referred to a Med Board next month due to a service caused injury. Having never been down this route before, does anyone know what to expect or have any advice? Dodgy back (not glass back, honest, but a bit fecked). Have been exempt...
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