1. Ensure that all officers did at least 3.5 years in their tours so that the harvest of their ideas could be reaped!
2. Stop the publication of very expensive glossy publications that preach to the underlings about core values, decent behaivour, ethos etc.
3. Ensure that ALL senior officers read all the previously published glossy publications on decent behaivour, core values and ethos. (In other words practice what they preach, Remember Sir Peter H).
4. Tell the Government the truth about what is going on (for research read pPrune and e-Goat daily), As I would already be top of the tree so what can they do to me,(when they've sacked the sixth CAS for telling them the truth then HMG might start to think there is somthing to what they're saying).
5. Don't play word games on the TV when iterveiwed by the media, like the Army chief did on The BBC yesterday, when asked about tour lengths, recruitment and moral, as if the troops are going to tell him to his face when on a visit to Basrah. Tell it like it is, don't waffle.
6. (This won't be popular) Re-introduce proper 3 day Tacevals. Stop flying, practice realistic scenarios, let the "leaders" in each section do a bit of leading of their own troops for a few days. Get the Stn Cdrs to talk to their troops on the Stn tannoys, let them motivate, encourage, bollo*k us, like they used to.
7. Get round the stations and meet the troops in their workplaces, talk to the SNCOs "off the record".
8. Get us fit, not by the back door of thinly veiled threats. Every station every Wed PM have proper PT organised by the PTIs (isn't that what they are employed for). STOP FLYING SO THAT WE CAN ALL DO THE PT, NOT JUST THE GROUND CREW.
9. Tell the troops what is happening before the media does, what airfields are closing, when and why.
10. Stop all trade mags, RAF News, FOCUS, Stn Mags producing more than one article on RAF Expeds per edition, it really gives the civies the wrong idea.
11. Ensure that all IOT Cadets read Colin Powell's autobiography paying special attention to the chapters on his military service. Teach same Cadets some humility.