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RAF Regiment Officer
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- Posted By: RAF Careers Office
-
Address:
- Charlotte House,
- 78 Queens Street
- Glasgow
- G1 3DN
- Date Posted: 10th Nov 2009
- Salary: We offer a competitive salary and benfits package. Visit www.rafcareers.com to find out more.
- Location: Glasgow
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- Full Description:
Provide infantry support to deployed air operations anywhere in the world
Your work:
Overview
The RAF Regiment is a highly-specialised force with responsibility for providing all infantry-orientated support to air operations. Specialists in infantry operations in support of aircraft, the RAF Regiment conducts the defence of the RAF airfields overseas, a unique Chemical, Biological and Radiological protection capability, forward air controlling, combat search and rescue, support to special forces operations and the co-ordination of all the RAF's wider Force Protection needs
As an RAF Regiment Officer, you'll become a specialist in infantry tactics and fieldcraft, and operate a range of weapons from grenades and rifles, right up to anti-tank missiles, machine guns and mortars; the Regiment also have an impressive array of state-of-the-art surveillance systems, designed to help you to locate the enemy and stop them from obstructing our air operations.
While you will need to be able to operate all our equipment as well as any of your men, your real task is to lead. Leadership is the quality that we seek in RAF Regiment Officers more than anything else; day or night, in any weather and in any environment, and regardless of how tired or hungry you may be. Whatever the situation, the enemy cannot be allowed to stop our aircraft from flying!
Like most people in the RAF, you'll move jobs every few years, with each job (or tour) designed to present a new challenge and to develop you for further promotion. There is a wide range of roles available to RAF Regiment Officers, including:
• Leading your Flight on patrol in the large area surrounding an airfield to deter, locate and destroy the enemy
• Working with the Army to call in and direct close air support;
• Parachuting into a hostile environment to secure an airfield for RAF or allied forces use;
• Planning missions and leading a small team to recover downed aircrew or other key personnel;
• Providing specialist capabilities to warn of and counter the effects of chemical, biological or radiological weapons.
• Providing training for RAF personnel to operate in today's dangerous environments; and
• Leading your flight in ceremonial events in front of the Royal Family, visiting Heads of State and other VIPs.
Within your first few years, you'll almost certainly be deployed on an overseas operation or exercise. You are likely to spend several months a year out of the UK in places as diverse as Canada, Central America and the Middle East.
Your first tour:
For your first tour, you'll be posted to an operational RAF Regiment squadron based in the UK. Here you will consolidate your training on Squadron exercises and do lots of adventurous training and sport. The most important thing is for you to get to know your men and for them to get to know and respect you, so that when you are on operations they can trust you and have confidence in the decisions you make.
Your training:
Initial Officer Training
Like everyone in the RAF, you'll start your career with a period of training. The initial training for RAF Regiment Officers is at the RAF College at Cranwell with potential officers from all the other branches. After graduating into the RAF as a Commissioned Officer, you will move to RAF Honington in Suffolk. This is the Regiment's home and is a place to which you will return with fond memories over the course of your career.
Specialist training
Next you will undertake the arduous Junior Regiment Officers' Course (JROC) which is 37 weeks of tough infantry training. Your fitness will step up a level while you are taught how to soldier and then how to command and lead your men. You will start with leading a section of eight men and end up leading a full flight of some 30 airmen (RAF Regiment Gunners). You'll make friends who will last a life time and you'll get to know them better than you know your own family.
RAF Regiment training is a real test of character, determination and the will to succeed. By the end of the course, you'll be at peak physical fitness and you'll have learned how to operate effectively in different environments and all kinds of conditions. The training needs to be hard to give you the confidence to overcome any situation that you may find yourself in during operations; with determination to can do it.
Ongoing development
However, your JROC is only the beginning; as you undertake new roles you will take courses to help you to meet any challenge, be it Forward Air Controlling, Jungle or Arctic Warfare courses or military parachuting. Life as an RAF Regiment officer is never predictable and a new challenge is always round the corner. Much will be demanded of you but, in return, you will go to places and experience a world your civilian friends can only dream of. The challenge is there, the rest is up to you.
Your future:
Prospects
You'll join the RAF on either a Short Service Commission of up to six years, or on a Permanent Commission that will normally require a minimum of 18 years' service. Promotion to the rank of Flight Lieutenant is on a time served/satisfactory service basis. Further promotion to Squadron Leader and above is by competitive selection.
Transferable skills:
RAF Regiment Officers who have left the RAF have found jobs in the fields of emergency planning and management consultancy, among many others.
How to join:
You can join the RAF at any time, as long as you meet the entry qualifications set out below.
Entry qualifications:
Age limits
17½-36
Academic qualifications
You need at least two A-levels/3 Highers plus five GCSEs/SCEs at Grade C/3 or equivalent, including English language and maths.
Selection
You must pass selection tests at the Officers and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC) at the RAF College Cranwell in Lincolnshire. You'll spend four days at OASC where we'll assess your potential to develop officer qualities, including communication skills, self-motivation, maturity, physical fitness and leadership skills. There is also the Potential Regiment Officers Acquaintance Course held at RAF Honington which all applicants for a commission in the RAF Regiment must to attend.
Nationality
You must have been a British citizen or holder of dual British/other nationality since birth.
Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should have resided there for the five years immediately preceding your application.
Equal opportunities
The RAF values every individual's unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background. However, for reasons of combat effectiveness, the RAF Regiment is open to men only.
This information was correct when published in March 2009, but may have changed since.
If you have any queries, please check with RAF staff at any Armed Forces Careers Office.
RAF careers could be based anywhere in the UK, please ensure you are fully aware before applying - are you up for the Challenge?
Your work:
Overview
The RAF Regiment is a highly-specialised force with responsibility for providing all infantry-orientated support to air operations. Specialists in infantry operations in support of aircraft, the RAF Regiment conducts the defence of the RAF airfields overseas, a unique Chemical, Biological and Radiological protection capability, forward air controlling, combat search and rescue, support to special forces operations and the co-ordination of all the RAF's wider Force Protection needs
As an RAF Regiment Officer, you'll become a specialist in infantry tactics and fieldcraft, and operate a range of weapons from grenades and rifles, right up to anti-tank missiles, machine guns and mortars; the Regiment also have an impressive array of state-of-the-art surveillance systems, designed to help you to locate the enemy and stop them from obstructing our air operations.
While you will need to be able to operate all our equipment as well as any of your men, your real task is to lead. Leadership is the quality that we seek in RAF Regiment Officers more than anything else; day or night, in any weather and in any environment, and regardless of how tired or hungry you may be. Whatever the situation, the enemy cannot be allowed to stop our aircraft from flying!
Like most people in the RAF, you'll move jobs every few years, with each job (or tour) designed to present a new challenge and to develop you for further promotion. There is a wide range of roles available to RAF Regiment Officers, including:
• Leading your Flight on patrol in the large area surrounding an airfield to deter, locate and destroy the enemy
• Working with the Army to call in and direct close air support;
• Parachuting into a hostile environment to secure an airfield for RAF or allied forces use;
• Planning missions and leading a small team to recover downed aircrew or other key personnel;
• Providing specialist capabilities to warn of and counter the effects of chemical, biological or radiological weapons.
• Providing training for RAF personnel to operate in today's dangerous environments; and
• Leading your flight in ceremonial events in front of the Royal Family, visiting Heads of State and other VIPs.
Within your first few years, you'll almost certainly be deployed on an overseas operation or exercise. You are likely to spend several months a year out of the UK in places as diverse as Canada, Central America and the Middle East.
Your first tour:
For your first tour, you'll be posted to an operational RAF Regiment squadron based in the UK. Here you will consolidate your training on Squadron exercises and do lots of adventurous training and sport. The most important thing is for you to get to know your men and for them to get to know and respect you, so that when you are on operations they can trust you and have confidence in the decisions you make.
Your training:
Initial Officer Training
Like everyone in the RAF, you'll start your career with a period of training. The initial training for RAF Regiment Officers is at the RAF College at Cranwell with potential officers from all the other branches. After graduating into the RAF as a Commissioned Officer, you will move to RAF Honington in Suffolk. This is the Regiment's home and is a place to which you will return with fond memories over the course of your career.
Specialist training
Next you will undertake the arduous Junior Regiment Officers' Course (JROC) which is 37 weeks of tough infantry training. Your fitness will step up a level while you are taught how to soldier and then how to command and lead your men. You will start with leading a section of eight men and end up leading a full flight of some 30 airmen (RAF Regiment Gunners). You'll make friends who will last a life time and you'll get to know them better than you know your own family.
RAF Regiment training is a real test of character, determination and the will to succeed. By the end of the course, you'll be at peak physical fitness and you'll have learned how to operate effectively in different environments and all kinds of conditions. The training needs to be hard to give you the confidence to overcome any situation that you may find yourself in during operations; with determination to can do it.
Ongoing development
However, your JROC is only the beginning; as you undertake new roles you will take courses to help you to meet any challenge, be it Forward Air Controlling, Jungle or Arctic Warfare courses or military parachuting. Life as an RAF Regiment officer is never predictable and a new challenge is always round the corner. Much will be demanded of you but, in return, you will go to places and experience a world your civilian friends can only dream of. The challenge is there, the rest is up to you.
Your future:
Prospects
You'll join the RAF on either a Short Service Commission of up to six years, or on a Permanent Commission that will normally require a minimum of 18 years' service. Promotion to the rank of Flight Lieutenant is on a time served/satisfactory service basis. Further promotion to Squadron Leader and above is by competitive selection.
Transferable skills:
RAF Regiment Officers who have left the RAF have found jobs in the fields of emergency planning and management consultancy, among many others.
How to join:
You can join the RAF at any time, as long as you meet the entry qualifications set out below.
Entry qualifications:
Age limits
17½-36
Academic qualifications
You need at least two A-levels/3 Highers plus five GCSEs/SCEs at Grade C/3 or equivalent, including English language and maths.
Selection
You must pass selection tests at the Officers and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC) at the RAF College Cranwell in Lincolnshire. You'll spend four days at OASC where we'll assess your potential to develop officer qualities, including communication skills, self-motivation, maturity, physical fitness and leadership skills. There is also the Potential Regiment Officers Acquaintance Course held at RAF Honington which all applicants for a commission in the RAF Regiment must to attend.
Nationality
You must have been a British citizen or holder of dual British/other nationality since birth.
Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should have resided there for the five years immediately preceding your application.
Equal opportunities
The RAF values every individual's unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background. However, for reasons of combat effectiveness, the RAF Regiment is open to men only.
This information was correct when published in March 2009, but may have changed since.
If you have any queries, please check with RAF staff at any Armed Forces Careers Office.
RAF careers could be based anywhere in the UK, please ensure you are fully aware before applying - are you up for the Challenge?
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