rfa officer

Hi all! I'm currently midway through with my application process for the RFA as a deck cadet officer. I have a few questions which maybe some users on here may be-able to clear up for me. I have tried researching them, however some questions are not covered and others are fairly outdated - so...

If you are considering joining the RFA as an officer, and given how much information I've seen which was either out of date, contradictory, or just plain wrong, I thought it would be useful to share my successful experience (which is current as of August 2019). If this helps one person I will...