UK: Cream of officers bail out of RAF
27th June 2011
RAF chiefs fear that the “cream” of the air force is leaving after a dozen group captains resigned or asked for voluntary redundancy in the past month, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
One of the officers had been earmarked to become a future head of the RAF and three others were in line to become at least air vice-marshals.
And, really, who could blame them? There is no ‘career’ available in the British military any more.
Senior RAF sources have said that the officers decided to quit after they had “seen the writing on the wall” with reductions in equipment and personnel.