smack
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right as i have no idea what to do in life and its kinda comming to that make or break time iv been looking up joing mabe the Raf, probs just infantry in it.
Anyone care to imput in this,anyone in the raf, sounds a good plan?
cheers 
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Russ
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raf infantry is wank. better off with a trade, so when u come out you can get another job with the skills youve learned. not much call for people to sit on airfields "guarding" them
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
raf infantry is wank. better off with a trade, so when u come out you can get another job with the skills youve learned. not much call for people to sit on airfields "guarding" them
aye, go for a trade.
A friend of mine (met him in college) just got his redundency from the RAF, was teaching the mechanical side of B52 plane maintenance. He retired from there with approx 100k package + pension!
He took me on the flight simulator they train the cadates on, and i gotta say its one of the best experiences.
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ed
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My uncle designs those for a living. He gets to play on them every day 
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xcore
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Regiment is poop i hear, be groundcrew 
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Kerry
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i would love nothing more to be in the RAF i once stayed for 2 weeks on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the place is awesome!
i would like to be in Air Traffic Control but dunno if i am too old now 
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Chris F
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was in the Air Cadet as a SGT for 4 years loved it, still have the RAF inmind
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mav
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Brother and uncles were in RAF, bro was in Air traffic control and loved it, went all over the world..Uncle was top brass retired a very wealthy man.
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Scotty C
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I wanna join the RAF, purely to get away from the fucking wench
[Edited on 28-07-2007 by Monster]
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smack
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cheers for the input peeps, sounding very promosing, well its this or college for 3 more years doing public services, il have a good think on it 
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Ste
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quote:
Originally posted by Kerry
i would love nothing more to be in the RAF i once stayed for 2 weeks on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the place is awesome!
i would like to be in Air Traffic Control but dunno if i am too old now
haha akki, is the biggest pile of poop wank in the world. too many mosquitos and stinking cypriots.
i was in the raf for 7 years from early 99 till the end of 05.
trained as an avionics technician, done my first tour on 3 squadron with the harrier GR7. went all over the world like las vegas, canada, akkrotiri, goose bay, france, sierra leone, italy.
then a tour on nimrod r1 spy planes were we spent ourlives in the gulf or akrotiri.
most usefull trades to carry on into civvy life is probably avionics, electrician or airframe tech.
armourers arent really called for in civvy life unles they start arming easyjet!!!!
pay was ok too. i left on about 26k with 6 weeks paid holiday, another 6 weeks paid stand down after detachments, paid weekends and a few grand untaxed rates when abroad. eg, $80 cash per day in las vegas ontop of wages. mmmmmmm
ste
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Beato
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quote:
Originally posted by Ste W
quote:
Originally posted by Kerry
i would love nothing more to be in the RAF i once stayed for 2 weeks on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the place is awesome!
i would like to be in Air Traffic Control but dunno if i am too old now
haha akki, is the biggest pile of poop wank in the world. too many mosquitos and stinking cypriots.
i was in the raf for 7 years from early 99 till the end of 05.
trained as an avionics technician, done my first tour on 3 squadron with the harrier GR7. went all over the world like las vegas, canada, akkrotiri, goose bay, france, sierra leone, italy.
then a tour on nimrod r1 spy planes were we spent ourlives in the gulf or akrotiri.
most usefull trades to carry on into civvy life is probably avionics, electrician or airframe tech.
armourers arent really called for in civvy life unles they start arming easyjet!!!!
pay was ok too. i left on about 26k with 6 weeks paid holiday, another 6 weeks paid stand down after detachments, paid weekends and a few grand untaxed rates when abroad. eg, $80 cash per day in las vegas ontop of wages. mmmmmmm
ste
What do you do now?
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Ste
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haha, a little different than my previous.
i now breed pigs and sell sausages and bacon n stuff.
www.foxhillpigs.co.uk
thought it was a change from the norm
[Edited on 29-07-2007 by Ste W]
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Jamie
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Good for you for breaking the cycle Ste W
I did all my interviews / exams for the RAF
Just had to choose what I wanted to do. Decided at 20 i'd have more options doing a hons degree then consider it.
RAF strangely agreed.
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Russ
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HAHA
all that training, the thousands of pounds, and you breed pigs. love it
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Ste
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fuck em, they screw you over anyway by training you to high levels only to fuck you around and not give you any decent civvy qualifications for it. so you come out experienced but underqualified. my mate hjust come out and gone to uni to study a degree in aerospace eng at a lower level than in the RAF where he got a btec!!!!
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HAHA
all that training, the thousands of pounds, and you breed pigs. love it/quote:
yup screwed em for every penny when i left too
lol
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Laney
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I'd love to join up Stupid asthma
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ianofbhills
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quote:
Originally posted by Ste W
quote:
Originally posted by Kerry
i would love nothing more to be in the RAF i once stayed for 2 weeks on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the place is awesome!
i would like to be in Air Traffic Control but dunno if i am too old now
haha akki, is the biggest pile of poop wank in the world. too many mosquitos and stinking cypriots.
ste
agree with that akki and cyprus in general is really really turd.
I'm in the raf and have been for 8 years now. I'm an airframe tech cpl on tornado f3's at leuchars.
I like my job, i get paid loads of money to do very little work and its different every day. The only negative is i've kind of sold my soul and have to do the less cushy jobs like guard or rubbish detachments away (like cyprus for a month) but you've got to take the rough with the smooth.
defo join up with a trade tho the raf reg is a pretty pap job.
go down to the afco and see what they try and blag you with
and for ste w i'd love to know what you did for your resettlement to end up as a pig breeder 
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