I've posted this on the plummers site and thought i'd see the reaction too it here as well....
I ask this question as Marham was in the process when I left. Odiham has just been leaned with the following impact.
18 & 27 Sqn groundcrews have been merged into one big uber engineering Sqn. This has had 3 major concequences:
1) 18 has had to move lock stock and barrell from one side of the airfield to the other.
2)The vast majority of the groundcrew feel they have had their Sqn identity taken from them and the opinion is that they now belong to nobody. Lets face it, if you can't hate another Sqn then it's the OSW's who'll get the brunt of it.
3)The Armourers on 1st line feel they've been **** on worse than the rest. Not only have they been booted of the Sqn's with the rest of the engineers but they've been leaned of the uber engineering Sqn into a massive centralised armoury which doesn't have the capacity to take 50 people.
The general feeling is that we've been abandoned. This is due to the fact that 7 Sqn (who seem to think they're special) have dug their heels in in an attempt to keep their plummers where as 18 and 27 have done nothing in the way of putting a fight up.
All this leaning bollox in general seems to stem from one Sqn (7) stamping it's feet when it was told to bugger off when it couldn't have 18's hanger on the far side of the airfield...
It would be interesting to hear other peoples experience of the 'Lean' process and see how you've been affected by it......
I ask this question as Marham was in the process when I left. Odiham has just been leaned with the following impact.
18 & 27 Sqn groundcrews have been merged into one big uber engineering Sqn. This has had 3 major concequences:
1) 18 has had to move lock stock and barrell from one side of the airfield to the other.
2)The vast majority of the groundcrew feel they have had their Sqn identity taken from them and the opinion is that they now belong to nobody. Lets face it, if you can't hate another Sqn then it's the OSW's who'll get the brunt of it.
3)The Armourers on 1st line feel they've been **** on worse than the rest. Not only have they been booted of the Sqn's with the rest of the engineers but they've been leaned of the uber engineering Sqn into a massive centralised armoury which doesn't have the capacity to take 50 people.
The general feeling is that we've been abandoned. This is due to the fact that 7 Sqn (who seem to think they're special) have dug their heels in in an attempt to keep their plummers where as 18 and 27 have done nothing in the way of putting a fight up.
All this leaning bollox in general seems to stem from one Sqn (7) stamping it's feet when it was told to bugger off when it couldn't have 18's hanger on the far side of the airfield...
It would be interesting to hear other peoples experience of the 'Lean' process and see how you've been affected by it......