RAF Couples

[MindTheMat]

Hi there,

If both yourself and your partner are in the RAF, can you apply to be posted to the same base? I know you have to be prepared to go wherever the service needs you to, but I wondered if the RAF made any allowances for serving couples.

Thanks.

 

[SORRY CJ]

Hi there,

I know you have to be prepared to go wherever the service needs you to.

I think you answered your own question.

Oh by the way....Welcome to The Goat.

Mr SCJ

 

[Downsizer]

Yes you can apply for co-location but service needs come first.

 

[Max Reheat]

Manning try their best to accommodate you, depends on your trades and slots available at the time. I've been posted with my Mrs for 9 years but we've been fortunate because our Sqns keep shutting down or moving

 

[spike7451]

Worked with a couple married couples in my day,most were on the same station but I remember one lad I worked with at Kinloss & his wife,(different trade) had to take a posting at Lossie.

 

[Pension Trapped]

when my husband was still serving, I was in Scotland and he at Brize - "collocation doesn't exists anymore" the lovely drafters said. Imagine my surprise when I got to HQ Air a year later (hubby was posted to Wattisham at this point), to find two people on collocation! Was one of them a drafter? YUP!! Needless to say, hubby left the RAF pretty soon after and here I am - Pension Trapped!

 

[Sniffer]

They will try for you but nothing can be guarenteed.

 

[vim_fuego]

When it was applicable I always managed to get us co-located...I think you are on the unlucky list if you don't manage to get somewhere together or at least close...there is always the service needs excuse available to not do it but they will know that they'll get more out of you if you are happy than not especially over an extended period...

 

[Stevienics]

Odd isn't it; An amazing success rate for locating couples, yet locating one person where they want to go seems to be like pulling teeth?

 

[busby1971]

When collocating service couples drafters would often off the hard to fill places knowing being together was more important than location. It would be rare to be colocated at one of the sought after camps, trade dependant.

Of course there's always the exemption that proves the rule but by and large that how they worked.

 

[firestorm]

They try....a bit.
I was a little perturbed when I got Macrahanish and she got Cyprus. They said tough but then bungled a diagnosis ( said she had cancer, they were wrong) .
Both then went to Northolt and PVRd, they then urge to send me to the Falklands!
Caring, sharing!