Too many wasters, too few good candidates or a bit of both?

I don't think there is an issue with training places, i think the capacity is there. Whether we're attracting people who we normally wouldn't or it's all the fault of capita or something else i don't know. I've not done a tour in recruiting. It might be the forces isn't as popular as it was in the g...

That’s one way to look at it and you raise valid points. The other way to look at it is to say that defence is being run too hot and there is virtually no excess to allow for a realistic rate of attrition in a conflict. Continuously running hot fleets is a peacetime luxury that goes out of date as ...

https://archive.is/8wrrq More issues with recruiting. So the problem is not people wanting to join it is the crap recruiting firm I believe they are about to takeover tri service recruitment from next year. We'll see how that goes. How much has the training stream got to play in all of this or the ...

Tempest414 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2024, 11:31

topman wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 11:41 https://archive.is/8wrrq

More issues with recruiting.

So the problem is not people wanting to join it is the crap recruiting firm

I believe they are about to takeover tri service recruitment from next year. We'll see how that goes.

Found an article on manpower issues; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/22/three-quarters-would-be-military-recruits-drop-out-process/ We do not have a manpower issue so much as a self-inflicted recruitment issue, and if we were able to respond to applications manpower issues would be resolve...

How would having more sqn with fewer aircraft mean more pilots? Problem with creating more Sqns is it requires more people, where do all these people come from? You seem to be a bod in the know how low does it take to turn a jet around for line maintenance Line maintenance? I take that to mean betw...

https://archive.is/8wrrq

More issues with recruiting.

How would having more sqn with fewer aircraft mean more pilots?

Problem with creating more Sqns is it requires more people, where do all these people come from?

Probably bounced around whatsapp groups.

Someone leave their ipod on charge?

SW1 wrote: ↑08 Mar 2024, 18:57 [

And if you want to fix something in the next 5 years this would be a good place to start

I wonder when it bottoms out.

I'm sure I've asked before but I have forgotten the answer but why on earth do they wear army camouflage?? Especially at sea. I think that its just the aircrew wearing the camouflage uniforms. But I could be wrong. Yeah but why?? They all Navy dudes and dudesses. There's no navy blue version of tha...

No great surprise unfortunately, the writing has been on the wall for several years.

I'm not sure if it's started to bottom out yet. The government seem quite comfortable with what's happening.

No - and likewise it wouldn't be better if only people who HAD served/worked for the MoD were on here. On group has experience of how things really work and the other is not caught "in the silo" I agree we need all groups but what we need is those who are serving now to feed in more of th...

Sometimes it takes time to get all the information to make a decision, that doesn't always align with deployment dates as much as we would like it to. With the costs at stake with the carriers it should. Should, well I should win the lottery this week. But probably won't. So was it foreseen or unfo...

Do people feel it would be better if there were only people who hadn't served/worked for the MoD on here or not?

tomuk wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 21:09

topman wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 14:38 Sometimes it takes time to get all the information to make a decision, that doesn't always align with deployment dates as much as we would like it to.

With the costs at stake with the carriers it should.

Should, well I should win the lottery this week. But probably won't.

Sometimes it takes time to get all the information to make a decision, that doesn't always align with deployment dates as much as we would like it to.

What is the reason this time, sprung a leak, toilets blocked up, someone left their ipod at home?

Two quite fantastic articles in there own right we are entering a period were the political resolve of the west will be tested like never before with probably the worst set of politicians we’ve ever had. So what does HMG do now? Starting to look like the majority of western politicians are in denia...

We'd need at least one other base and hundreds of people for this fleet alone to hit 138. Just out of sheer curiosity, if there were to be enough 'extra' F35's to justify it, which previous but currently non-active airfield is still close enough to being operational to be worth reactivating? Any of...

There were many issues, the biggest issue is arguable. Why were they put in one box? What isn't is that there was a shortage of people. The only plausible explanation for the sloppy procedures is its the natural consequence of allowing the light blue to have a straglehold over carrier aviation You ...

There were many issues, the biggest issue is arguable. Why were they put in one box?

What isn't is that there was a shortage of people.