He's in the early days of training, so there will be lots of early starts and late finishes, along with lessons and kit preparation and inspections. An average training day is jam packed full of lessons and activities, so he will be literally running from one lesson to another, then to meals, then ...

Capitals Flight is the name of the training flight he is on. It's named that because the RAF Regt were amongst the first units into many of the european capital cities during the war, securing airfields and capturing german aircraft and associated technology. All the training flights at Honington ...

Playing Devils' Advocate here and setting the record straight on a couple of points.

On 603 Sqn, the troops going through the 2-week Basic Course are not awarded their mudguards at the end. They have to complete further training, which usually takes another 3-4 months to complete. You'll probably ...

The RAF Regiment currently supplies the manpower for the 3 TACPs within 16 Air Assault Brigade, as well the OC for 2 other TACPs within other Brigades. The RM man the TACPs within 3 Commando Brigade, although the Brigade Air Liaison Officer is an RAF Regt Flt Lt.

The role of the TACP is usually to ...

One thing to contemplate, the RAF is restructuring and an awful lot of bases are closing with more in the pipeline (ie, Lossiemouth next month and potentially Brize Norton to name but two)


Bit of misinformation here, Lossiemouth is not due to close next month and has not even been scheduled for ...

Latest hot poop is that the RAF is looking at bringing in a pre-entry fitness test, comprising of a 1.5 mile run on a treadmill. The test will be conducted at a local gym, under contract to the RAF. Applicants will have to achieve the current standard for their age group, less 10%. Once an applicant ...

At present there are no entry fitness standards for RAF recruits. Airmen and airwomen recruits must, however, attempt the RAF Fitness Test (RAFFT) by the end of recruit training at RAF Halton. If they do not succeed in achieving the required standards, remedial fitness training is provided at their ...

Long Timer wrote:

RAF Regt is expected to provide a sizable part

Not strictly true. The rough breakdown is Army (1 Para) filling about 2/3 of the slots, the Royal Marines filling the vast majority of the other 1/3, and the RAF Regt filling the remaining slots (which equates to about 5% of the ...

I know I shouldn't have risen to it, but my flash to bang time was low that day!

Anyway, after the 'you're a homo' comments and my retorts, there was nobody worth verbally jousting with, plus I really do have a life/better things to do.

I can't be ARRSE'd!

Enough is enough. After some spotty chav posted a comment about how he'd been to Honington on the PGAC and how it was so easy and how he hated everybody he met and how the RAF Regt has its collective head up its arse, I had to retaliate.

Needless to say, Mr Pongo brought out his ever so witty 'you ...

RAF reservists travelling great distances to attend their unit is nothing new. 612 Sqn at RAF Leuchars is a surgical unit, employing medical specialists from around the UK. The sqn pays for these people to attend from its travel and subsistence budget.

Enquire of the staff at 609 Sqn about the ...

So far, II Sqn have had their overall number of parachute billets cut down on the Sqn to double figures. The loss of the parachute capability completely is a real possibility, due to the overall cut in para billets across all 3 services.

Semi-good news is that there will be up to 40 RAF Regt slots ...

Whilst surfing the net recently, I checked out ARRSE, just for sheer comedy value.

The thread entitled 'Most Non-Elite 'Elite' Units' has some priceless comments from our Pongo brethren concerning the RAF Regt. Yes, you guessed it, it's the old if you want to be an infantryman, join the Army ...

Usually a RAuxAF Sqn will have a training weekend once a month. The weekend could be anything from live firing on the range, to a tactical exercise in the field. It all depends on what training programme the Sqn has for the year.

Auxiliary Gunners can deploy on operations with the Regulars, but it ...

Try the Regiment Shop at RAF Honington. They had lots of copies when the book was first published.