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Lantern Swinger
We can't afford to wait that long...slim said:Thanks for the information Ninja, as normal a good clear answer.
So I suppose that we will have to wait about ten years and then look at percentages of engineering officers promoted from the ET branches to decide if the training is as acceptable as the old Tiff/Mech branches.
The RN will still need about as many officers extracted from ETs as it did from tiffs....this year, next year and so on. The new ETs joining have just about as much chance, therefore of being selected, at some stage, all things being equal.
Are all things equal? There's an assumption that the mix of people joining as ETs is the same educational/intellectual mix as for a combined entry of tiffs/stokers, is this a reasonable assumption? I dunno, but I suspect that the recruiting brochures don't attract those that would have been the top end of the tiffs, faster track to officer.
I reckon that the ETs overall, through their career, get the same training (if not better) than their tiff counterparts, they just wait longer top get all the academic/theory stuff, I guess it's more akin to a mech...
I think the jury's still out on how we get the brighter ETs selected for officer (upper yardy school again?)