At the moment all the RAF can encourage into service are 17 year old knobbers who didn`t like working in McDonalds, because it meant even less time on the playstrapon 2.
Add to this current redundancies and PVR`s of better quality tradesmen, of all the trades, and you end up with an air force that just can`t be bothered to get out of bed in the morning.
When will people with scrambled egg laden hats realise that they should be looking after us properly, in every sense. Pay, rank structures, sports, family matters etc have all gone to s**t to try to save a few pence. I would have prefered a meagre pay rise instead of getting a crappy rucksack that fell apart after 5 minutes. thats where they need to save money.
The rank structure is a farce whatever way you look at it, compared to our chums in the army and navy, but as our senior officers couldn`t give a monkeys for us, what hope have we got.