Do you regret joining the RAF?

Overall no regrets on all counts.

Is the RAF a good career?

‘ The RAF provide some of the best training you will ever receive, both in leadership and management but also in the ability to make sound engineering decisions even when under pressure. It’s one of the most fun jobs around in engineering, where the phrase ‘work hard, play hard’ really comes to mind.

Where can you serve with the RAF in the UK and overseas?

Air Command has responsibility for all RAF bases overseas.

• RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus.
• RAF Ascension Island.
• RAFU Goose Bay, Canada.
• RAF Gibraltar.
• Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands.
• Mobile Air Movement Squadron (MAMS)

  What is the biggest RAF base in the UK?

  RAF Brize Norton
  RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire is the largest RAF Station with approximately 5,800 Service Personnel, 1,200 contractors and 300 civilian staff. The Station is home to the RAF’s Strategic and Tactical Air Transport (AT) and Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) forces, as well as host to many lodger and reserve units.

  Does the UK still have military bases in Germany?

  Under the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, it was decided that British military units would cease to be permanent deployed in Germany by the end of 2019. In autumn 2019, British Forces Germany effectively closed, with the last military base handed back to the German Bundeswehr in February 2020.

  Which is the only complete muster roll of the RAF?

  Consult the only complete muster roll of the RAF, compiled on its formation on 1 April 1918, on Findmypast.co.uk. The original documents are in AIR 1/819/204/4/1316 and also AIR 10/232 -237. Browse the first series of Air Historical Branch (AHB) records in series AIR 1 for nominal rolls of individual units for the First World War.

  Is the RAF Roll of Honour in the National Archives?

  Look at AIR 2/219, the Roll of Honour for men from the USA and Dominions who served with the British Air Forces in the First World War. Look at AIR 14/2091, the Roll of Honour for No. 5 Group in Bomber Command. This is the only known Second World War nominal roll for the RAF in The National Archives.

  What are the RAF service numbers for air 79?

  The records in AIR 79 usually contain the following information: RAF service numbers between 313001 and 316000 indicate that the airmen previously served with the Royal Navy and then subsequently the Royal Naval Air Service, before transferring to the RAF.

  How many RAF officers were discharged in 1919?

  By the end of 1919, 26,000 of the 27,000 serving RAF officers had been discharged, and it is largely their service details which are held in this series. Records of RAF officers who served after 1922 are still with the RAF. Look on the GOV.UK website to find out how to obtain service records. 4. Operations Record Books and Combat Reports