fido said:
Didn't mean to offend you Bisley - it is, though, the RNR officers with whom I take exception. Can't hack it in the RN - PVR and join the RNR!
fido
How VERY dare you! I could hack it, I just .... er ... couldn't be ... er .. yeah fair enough.
Seriously though, the RNR Air Branch is much-maligned and misunderstood, especially the pilots and observers. However, the powers that be use us a lot to fill gaps in various NAS (or, more often, to fill second line jobs temporarily while the previous incumbent goes to somewhere sandy), and under the new(ish) pay regulations, even the higher paid commitment-dodgers turn up for duty.
We just have very little to do with the rest of the RNR and on drill nights we can't by definition do our core training, but we must be one of the few RNR branches that trains for our reservist job in our day-to-day job at zero extra cost to pusser. Seems like a good deal for the taxpayer to me!