Hi guys,
My long-term OH is currently training for a position as an HM officer (specialisation meteorology).
There are a few questions I wanted to ask regarding leave, and obviously at the moment my OH is busy they don't have a minute to themselves and I don't want to ask them to take out precious time in order to consult with any of the commissioned officers. I don't want to nag them, I just want to be supportive, so I thought I would direct my comments here:
- The average length of deployment for an M officer seems to be two months on, one month off. Obviously this is quite short compared to full GS deployments, but I was curious if my OH would get any post-operational leave following the conclusion of a two month stint. Also, I know that currently serving personnel on nine month rotations get some time off in the middle. Would this (albeit a much shorter version) still apply on a two month deployment like this?
- For M officers, what would be the average split between air bases and ships?
- As an M officer, are you entirely located at RNAS Culdrose and RNAS Yeovilton? Or is it likely/possible you would serve at one of the RAF stations as well, in conjunction with the Met Office's own meteorologists? Also, my OH mentioned Northwood Headquarters as a place more senior M officers might serve at; I'm assuming this would be quite late in one's career?
- Obviously service requirements come first, but is any consideration at all taken in for weakling civilian partners like me (ha) when it comes to assigning deployments? Does it tend to be single people are given the longest, then engaged, then married then married with kids? Or is that simply not the case?
As I said, I don't want to pressure my OH into finding answers to questions when they're currently so busy, so I thought I would try here. There's not a lot about HM specialisations anywhere I can see, and I know for a fact the official RN website seems woefully out of date when it comes to HM.
Thanks!
Tamar
My long-term OH is currently training for a position as an HM officer (specialisation meteorology).
There are a few questions I wanted to ask regarding leave, and obviously at the moment my OH is busy they don't have a minute to themselves and I don't want to ask them to take out precious time in order to consult with any of the commissioned officers. I don't want to nag them, I just want to be supportive, so I thought I would direct my comments here:
- The average length of deployment for an M officer seems to be two months on, one month off. Obviously this is quite short compared to full GS deployments, but I was curious if my OH would get any post-operational leave following the conclusion of a two month stint. Also, I know that currently serving personnel on nine month rotations get some time off in the middle. Would this (albeit a much shorter version) still apply on a two month deployment like this?
- For M officers, what would be the average split between air bases and ships?
- As an M officer, are you entirely located at RNAS Culdrose and RNAS Yeovilton? Or is it likely/possible you would serve at one of the RAF stations as well, in conjunction with the Met Office's own meteorologists? Also, my OH mentioned Northwood Headquarters as a place more senior M officers might serve at; I'm assuming this would be quite late in one's career?
- Obviously service requirements come first, but is any consideration at all taken in for weakling civilian partners like me (ha) when it comes to assigning deployments? Does it tend to be single people are given the longest, then engaged, then married then married with kids? Or is that simply not the case?
As I said, I don't want to pressure my OH into finding answers to questions when they're currently so busy, so I thought I would try here. There's not a lot about HM specialisations anywhere I can see, and I know for a fact the official RN website seems woefully out of date when it comes to HM.
Thanks!
Tamar