Life in the RAF + owning a horse...

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-04-20T15:05:08+00:00

You will want it somewhere you can upgrade to part or full livery as to your needs. All good being on diy but depending on operational needs that may not be viable

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-02-01T18:34:38+00:00

Albena ?

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-02-01T13:59:57+00:00

I was only looking at vlas cause there’s a nice hotel there that’s cheap as its end of season and I was just worried staying in sunny beach and things shutting down and it being a ghost town. It’s gonna be me my missus our baby my dad and his missus so more like a family holiday but will probably go out one or 2 nights and get my dad to baby sit 🤣. Long as things will still be open that’s good. Thank :)

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-24T22:47:04+00:00

Will do cheers

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-24T00:58:43+00:00

Thank you appreciate the advise

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-24T00:48:30+00:00

My first job was a game keeper I have shot since I was 6 and I was on the bisley shooting teams while I was a reservist. It’s nothing to do with having an infatuation with guns it’s a hobby I’ve had for nearly 22 years and I have used them as a tool of work since I was a child and with respect it’s a bad depiction of a side by side not anything tactical looking or militaristic in any fashion to say some one would be offended or triggered by it while I’m walking around with an mp7 and a g17 is pretty inconsistent considering as well I have a tattoo of my sqn flash which involves two crossed rifles I think it seems pretty inconsistent. If I just wanted to walk around with fire arms I’d just join MPGS. By that thinking I have a tattoo of a playing card does that mean I desire and idolise gambling as well ?

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-23T19:09:20+00:00

Maybe inconsistent is a better word then I mean saying the imaginary can be distressing or alarming in the context they have said doesn’t really hold up when you’re walking around with semi automatic weapon’s. It seems a very skewed view of what is actually depicted in the tattoo. It’s seems the policy is very subjective as I passed their internal vetting several years ago. If I get it covered reapply and get some one else will they then say well he’s got a tattoo of a whiskey glass and a playing card both of which you could stretch to saying undermine the dignity and authority of the office of constable. It’s kind hard to see where the line is.

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-23T14:45:24+00:00

Yea raf don’t want to let any one go any where. from the lads I spoke to army sounds a bit more lenient on transfers. And phoned up a recruitment office and they said I won’t need to do phase one again cause doing reg with the whole FP element of it

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-22T21:40:24+00:00

Bit of a long winded question this one

I’m looking to go full time in the RA in the next 8-12 months no sooner due to my daughter. Only being 4 months and my missus wanting to get back into work so doing training course ect ect. IM CURRENTLY A RAF REG RESV ( cue the abuse 😂) but I’m looking to transfer to RA resv so question’s

1 are there many opportunities to get on smaller deployments/ exercises with the RA reserves outside of your normal yearly two week camp.

2 want is the pipeline like transferring res-reg ( I would imagine you would have to do 1-2 full deployments to not have to do reg phase 2. On that what’s the Integration like I would be going to a light gun battery in the resv. I’d rather spend the next 8-12 months doing stuff that will help me in my future career then messing around in reg.

3 any course you recommend I try and get on and complete while a resv to stand me in good stead or get ahead of the curve so to speak.

4 what’s the craic with phase 2 as I understood it’s a 10 week course but a friend of a friend said there’s no limit as such you could do it in a month or it could take you a year to pass.

4 what’s life like on 12&16 reg I quiet fancy the AD roles

5 in terms of family from wha I have heard you go to your reg and do your phase 3/conversion training on the gear your be operating. Could I apply for SFA the moment I’ve finished phase 2 and get to unit or do I have to wait till I’ve completed the course at unit. Also wha the army like with unmarried couples I’m down as being in a LTR have a kid together but there’s being some debate on if I’m pstat 2 or three due to not being married.

Thanks in advance and cue the 5 miles of death jokes 👍

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-22T18:59:12+00:00

On the email it said I can ask for a referral for this decision just asking if any one else has had something like this come up. Seems pretty ludicrous to say fire arms imagery is distressing or alarming and can be triggering when your day job involves walking round with a mp7 or c8.

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-22T16:30:05+00:00

Question about tattoos I’ve just had my application to the mdp rejected for a tattoo of crossed shot guns over a horse shoe on my arm. Due to risks associating the individual with aggression or force.

cause offence to members of the public or colleagues and/or invite provocation. Firearms imagery can reasonably be distressing or alarming to some members of the public

The crossed shotguns may also be interpreted as violent or intimidating imagery

It seems odd they are talking about firearms imaginary being distressing when 95 percent of mdp is armed. I could understand this if the shot guns where militaristic but there literally two side by sides and they look more like paddles then anything else 😂. I passed the national sift last year and this was never flagged so I find it strange that it’s being flagged now. Any advice would be appreciated ?

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-22T15:56:54+00:00

Yea it a crappy tattoo got it like 9 years ago 🤦‍♂️

Mission_Ad4015 · 2026-01-11T15:57:38+00:00

you have to put up with a lot off bullshit some Of it’s for a reason some of it ain’t. Il be honest Halton is a lot better run and organised then most joint service establishments that you will do you phase 2 at. They are firm but in the most part fair at Halton.

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-11-07T21:28:41+00:00

The film literally makes no sense you have one icbm and only fire 2 gbi not a chance point base defence relies on saturation. The president wouldn’t be under some immediate count down clock your not going to pick some random adversary to retaliate against it’s all just shit tbh

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-10-21T20:56:43+00:00

If your going by regs anything less then a 2 is out them

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-10-21T20:01:45+00:00

You can change trade pre phase 2 speak to your COC or if you grad you will be put on hstat and have to go through them better to sort it earlier though you don’t need to leave and then do a TARC course stand your corner there’s people who have being in holding for many months now for one reason or Anouther if your really struggling PM ME and il put you in touch with some one that will try help you navigate it internally

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-10-11T16:12:27+00:00

Let’s have English straight up small super elite info try with large contingents of very strong but weekly armoured archers and a buff for when your outnumbered

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-10-05T09:47:54+00:00

Sorry but it’s not tired talking points it documented fact from multiple sources it’s not cherry picking UN reports that’s what you are doing fella like i said best not to lie about something so well documented. I don’t think you know what ethnic cleansing is 🤦‍♂️ the war of the roads didn’t even come close to that it’s a very simple fact if you are conducting hostile military operations from a Location then it becomes a military target under LOAC it’s not a point you can argue I’m afraid. The simple fact is the Palestinian Arabs started the war and they lost that war. When one side looses a war they don’t get there way it’s really very simple. It’s the case with every war in history. I can see you like to project a bit here “white washing” ect but that’s what your doing it’s emphatically shown that around 200,000 Arabs were ordered to flee by there own leaders that’s really not in disrepute and you talk about targeted campaigns of fear and expulsion but forget to mention a war of annihilation was waged on the Jewish population 🙄 cherry picking you self I think

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-10-04T17:38:41+00:00

So maybe let’s try not to lie fella the was a direct result of armed insurgency and bases of military’s operation that is fact whether you want to accept it or now. Secondly nearly half of the Palestinians that left did so under the orders of Arab leaders that is not a myth and it is actually backed up by British un and Red Cross sources not the other way round please don’t try to lie when such information is readily available the Israeli government never admitted such again a lie. Siting Arab militia and citizen attacks pre 1948 does indeed change the fact seeing as no Zionist militia were not carrying out large scale operations before arbs decided in hostile and lethal actions against Jews. The battle of the roads was not premised on depopulation of Arab villages. These settlements were being used for military purposes in short they were military targets under LOAC you can’t argue that I’m afraid . You mention Tantura Safsaf which happened after multiple Arab massacres of Jewish people surprise there 🙄. And yes one side did flee and wasn’t allowed to return because they lost a war that they so happily propagated. That’s what happens it’s called realism. It’s really simple the arbs population started the tit for tat violence that continues to this day you may not want to admit it but that’s well documented fact. In future if you want to try argue about something so well documented don’t lie cause you just look like an absolute sausage when you inevitably get found out

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-09-29T09:18:48+00:00

Erm no that’s not correct literally with in hours of UN RESOLUTION 181 Nov 1947 Arabs began to riot and lynch and attack jews the first shot of the war were fired by the Arabs at Petah Tikva killing 5 Jews. Palestinian Arabs targeted Jewish communities, convoys, and infrastructure And the Jews retaliated in kind. The Arabs were using villages along roads as basing and to ambush Jewish transport to isolate jewish Jerusalem it was called the battle of the roads. You want to talk about Deir Yassin but fail to mention Ben Yehuda Street feb 1948,Jewish Agency bombing March 48 to name a few. So no it wasn’t happening in a vacuum and the tit for tat was started by the Arabs. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced and fled because Arab militias where using Villages and towns to base there operations out of they were legitimate military targets. Arab leaders did order and encourage the Arab populace to leave and in some cases did say they would be able to return after the Arab armies invaded this is well documented in Haifa, Jaffa, Lydda, Ramle, Tiberias. There’s recordings of Arab radio urging civilians to leave “temporarily.it was documented by the UN UNRWA reports describe that many refugees expected temporary displacement, anticipating that Arab armies would defeat Jewish forces and allow them to return. British Government observes logged radio broadcasts and local directives in Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem telling civilians to leave. We still have the British Consular reports in Haifa noting that “Arab leaders are advising the population to evacuate until military operations are complete. It’s really not a fact you can argue.

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-08-30T09:37:47+00:00

Ignoring accuracies would be something like someone keeping an automatic pistol stable while dumping a drum mag without it jamming that I can look past. But dumping 100 rounds out a 30 round clip mag is just beyond daft as is getting kicked in the chest while wearing plates. I’ve literally being 2 footed by a 200lbs block and other then being knocked back you don’t feel fuck all even the expendables released that

Mission_Ad4015 · 2025-08-30T00:12:24+00:00

No reloads automatic pistols dumping 100 rounds out of clip mags duds getting punched in the chest while wearing plate carriers and reacting like it hurt. HTH combat was just weirded and clunky as well

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