Here’s an example where the future may be for defence screamed personnel
A lot as closure of a base whether Leuchars or any other isn’t the end of the world.
Why did I make the last post ? It has if anyone bothers to read it fully (I have emboldened the extracts of relevance) answers to where the aerospace industry has a great need for skilled personnel (or re- trainable). The RAF personnel are some of the most highly trained professionals in the world – a gift to any aerospace employer.
A slap in the face, a disaster of some magnitude is how the closure/relocation of Leuchars is perceived by many. Only natural.
If the HR function within the RAF is working then they will be busy trying to position every skilled person within Leuchars or call in commercial recruitment colleagues who can advise on early re-training and position those who wish with aero space manufacturers (my post).
Tackling a crisis can be usually one of two ways – mull over purely the negatives finding scapegoats to devour and getting so bogged down one cannot see the wood from the trees OR to as any good RAF pilot would do in a flying crisis – kick in all the innovation and skill and use brain/logic to make the negative into a positive.
Turn this negative into a positive is the message I have – the individual solutions will not be always there on a plate but if the boys in blue cannot innovate and think outside the box then I am going to be very surprised, as this is not the case when you see them in action.
While agreeing that politics, economics & greed are inextricably linked to the fate of RAF Leuchar’s, I must admit MoggyC as mod was correct to recognise that we had drifted more into general discussion.
I wish to post this and although it’s title isn’t RAF or military but comes from a civil aviation post I made yesterday, the chunks within the article which spell some of the doom for Boeing have a sparkle for any boys in blue that are trained to look at future jobs in the aerospace industry. Jobs with longevity.
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Sadly with the current globalisation one has to go where the work is and the boys in blue are some of the world’s best trained professionals and will make a god’s gift to companies like Boeing.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2c75fda-a803-11e0-afc2-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=crm/email/2011719/nbe/Aerospace/product#axzz1SZUsF2K1
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner close to arrival
“…..“Some parts coming in still need reworking, plus we’re still ‘travelling’ jobs, and we’ll be doing it for years,” says one 787 line worker, referring to the need to move tasks from one assembly station to another, as work cannot be completed on time.
Production in Seattle will be complicated by Boeing’s need to set up a “surge line” in a former paint hangar to retrofit 787 models that were assembled before all the aircraft’s design problems were ironed out.
A further production challenge will be getting Boeing’s new plant in South Carolina, which officially opened last month, to produce three 787s a month within two years. Because the plant is brand new, Boeing is depending on workers with no commercial aerospace experience, although some have come from the US Air Force.
A legal dispute with its machinists’ union means that no workers will come from Seattle to help train the new workers. Instead, they will have to learn their jobs from videos.”
Here’s an example where the future may be for defence screaned personnel working side by side in future with scientists testing of prototypes, in manned aircraft, in UCAVs and in space.
Please see my thread – Atomoic Navigation
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110865
What better candidates for jobs, for places at University (with or without an industry sponsor) than existing RAF personnel who have been screened for defence clearance – they surely can see a future in all that’s happening.
It’s certainly way beyond the quagmire of economic depression we currently are in, but no trough lasts forever.
They just have to make a bold step – if Leuchars is shutting and they are likely to be displaced with that old fashioned word “go with the RAF’s blessing” to conquer new frontiers.
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