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Leaflet 1508. You must select RAF_No_Move if you don’t want a posting! 4. Enter Preference Priority. Indicate that your preference is for preferred Location as PMA will trawl for volunteers by geographic location not employment preference. 5. Enter up to 3 Preferred Locations. Only select UK counties. Do not select the regional areas or countries. You do not have to express a 2nd or 3rd choice and can leave the relevant boxes blank. If you are already located in one of the selected counties, you will be deemed to have attained your area of choice. However, if you wish to serve at a particular unit within a county, this should be reflected in the free text comments. 6. Add a Negative Location (if you have one). 7. Enter up to three job preferences. You should note that the preferences notified under this category will not be used as the prime factor for selection and will be considered as a career aspiration only. 8. Enter Additional Comments. If you wish, you can use the free text comments fields to amplify your selections. For example, you may wish to be collocated with your spouse/partner (if so, enter their Service details) or your own house may be in that area. Do not write your life story! Bedfordshire List of Counties and Associated Units for Movers Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Essex Fife Grampian Greater London Hampshire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Rutland Suffolk Wiltshire HQ DISC (Chicksands) RAF Halton RAF High Wycombe RAF Wittering MCTC Colchester RAF Leuchars RAF Kinloss RAF Lossiemouth MOD London RAF Northwood (PJHQ) RAF Northolt RAF Odiham DLO Andover (DTMA) RAF Coningsby RAF Kirton Lindsay RAF Waddington RAF Marham RAF Leeming RAF Benson RAF Brize Norton RAF Cottesmore RAF Honington RAF Lyneham RAF|Logistic Support|Mobile Supply (MSFs) RAF|Instructional Duties|Phase I Training at Halton) (Instructor duties Recruit RAF|Instructional Duties|Phase II (Instructor duties incl DMS) RAF|Instructional Duties|Phase III RAF|Logistic Support|Movements RAF|Logistic Support|ITOC Joint|Logistics| Joint|Warfare| RAF|Logistic Support|DTMA (Any Movs Post) (ITOC incl ATMC) (Any joint logs posting) (JATEU) (DTMA) So for JATEU AP Sect (Air Warfare Centre) you would apply for: C_Oxf For Oxfordshire Joint|Warfare| (use %joint to find on choices) Add ‘I wish to work at JATEU AP Sect’ in the free format remarks area) Don’t forget to click submit! Overseas Lists For posts becoming available before 1st Jan 2007 the old lists are being used. For Posts becoming available after 1 January 2007 the posts will be advertised in the Chief Clerks Bulletin. Trade Qualifications You must check your own trade qualification on JPA to ensure that they match any paperwork you given by the training organisation that awarded the Q, this is especially important for lifed Qs such as CAA DG. Confirm that the records held by your STF matches your JPA record. There have been several recent instances were personnel proceeding on DWR have been nominated for courses unnecessarily because their JPA record was not correct - don’t let this be you! Job preferences for Movers: RAF|Logistic Support|Air Movements (Air Movs eg BZZ Sqn) RAF|General|RAFLO (RAFLO) RAF|Logistic Support|MAMS (MAMS) RAF|Logistic Support|Mobile Air Movements (MAMS) NVQ National Recognition Two movements personnel working towards their Aviation Apprenticeship through the TG 18 (Movs) Accreditation Centre were selected as finalists in the National Passenger Transport Awards 2006. They are: SAC C Smith and SAC J Tooze both from RAF Brize Norton There are only three finalists selected in the aviation category so we have a very good chance of winning this award (held on 26 Oct 06 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London). Movements 41
Training update - some thoughts on Dangerous Goods (DG) Training Concern has been expressed by MSFs that they are regularly moving DG by road in the USA and Canada but are not qualified under US or Canadian law. FS Ian Dewar from the TAC at Halton has been to Heathrow on a course is currently working developing training to be delivered at the DMS. This is likely to become part of the Mobility PET course. I am trying to reduce the time spent on DG training particularly for Pre-Employment Training (PET) for OOA Dets. I have asked FS Dewar along with FS Mick Sullivan from the DMS to review the existing training and they held a meeting with the HQ STC DGSA, Mr John Hughes to look at the statutory requirements and are now working on restructuring the way DG training is delivered. The initial thoughts are: BMT - Retain awareness training. FMT - Retain CAA DG. Reduce DG by road training to 3 days (removing packing/rail/sea) and increase to the life of the Q to 5 years. Rail and Sea would then move to the Mobility PET course. TMT 1 - Included a refresher DG by road package valid for 5 years. Retain MEC (Explosives). The Mobilty PET course would be extended to include the new Crane Supervisor Q and DG by Rail/Sea and CFR 49. CFR 49 may become a stand alone course. If all of Ian and Mick’s work pays off we should have reduced the training time and acheived better progression as we progress through the ranks for DG training. And finally....Passenger Handling again: Customer Service - it begins long before the flight... Greet the passenger with a smile Confirm their destination and onmove details Treat them as you would expect to be treated Learn to listen Under-promise and over-deliver Follow-up on promises Go the extra mile Offer the customer options Treat with respect and deference Smile! If they don’t reciprocate, let your line manger deal with it You just Smile! With thanks to: Business Aviation Seminars for Information, Concepts and Solutions (BASICS) Dear Dan… Dear Dan Until recently I was looking forward to a cheeky little six week det in Basra, you know the score, a bit of work here and there, with plenty of sun and maybe a jaunt to the D’Eid for a change of scenery. Now I’m being told that they’ve all become Elton John fans out there, and honestly, that scares me. I’m a heavy metal man, no lightweight soft rock for me! What’s going on? Yours loudly Slash Dear Slash I’m afraid you’re a little bit confused, and not just in your choice of music (I like both types myself, country and western). The only Elton John fan out there is the SAMO, Dave Ward. Since he arrived in theatre a few weeks ago he’s been the sole target of the insurgents - he’s getting rocketed about every 10 minutes at the moment. Apparently BFBS keep playing requests for Dave ‘Rocket Man’ Ward. Remember, if you meet him, don’t stay near him.....run away! Dan Dear Dan I’m a bit worried about a certain WO in our Trade who may be feeling the effects of old age. I was at the DMS the other day doing a bit of TMT and was looking forward to a brief from the Movs Role Office. Anyway, the poor old WO left the presentation on his desk in the ivory tower. So we had to make do with the old boy burbling on about ‘the good old days’, how ‘it was so much better back then’ and ‘have you seen the price of incontinence pants these days’. Is there anything we can do for him? Mandy Dear Mandy (or is that Andy M?) Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. We’ll be taking the old war horse down the vets later...... Seriously though, we’re keeping a close eye on him, we’ve taken all sharp objects away from him, put a glass for his teeth next to his PC and the stairlift is being installed on Mon. Can’t do much about the smell of cabbage though........ Dan Dear Dan I’m outraged, positively foaming at the mouth. I’ve been in this Air Force 28 years, man and boy and nothing like has ever happened to me..... some thieving get tried to wander off with my natty bomber jacket this morning. Did he not notice the hoofing great rank slides? I ‘m a WO, don’t you know - how dare some lesser mortal fiddle with my gear? They’ll want the shirt off my back next..... Mr B Mr B Don’t panic, I’m calling the Crimewatch hotline now. We’ll have Fiona Bruce round in a flash. Are you available for a reconstruction? Hang on a moment…we’re getting an update from the CCTV people. Ah…we’ve got our man - you might want to have a word with a certain Air Commodore engineer. Still, it’s an easy mistake to make, one big thick stripe versus your gallopers. Best we keep this one quiet, we wouldn’t something as embarrassing as the Air Commodore wandering off in a WOs jacket to become public knowledge...... Dan 42 Movements
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