Ongoing Development
Subsequent tours of duty may see you being employed in a wide variety of areas, including:
• One of the other areas of the Operations Officer specialisation.
• Planning missions for the RAF’ s varied aircraft and systems
• Co-ordinating and managing transport aircraft schedules
• Form part of the Mobile Air Ops Team( MAOT) providing radio communications and Support Helicopter support to forward Battle Groups and other agencies
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• As‘ Mission Crew’ on the E-7‘ Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth.
• Part of the UK’ s deployable, ground based, command and control unit‘ Number 1 Air Control Centre’ located at RAF Boulmer.
• Instructing ab initio and postgraduate students
• As a Ballistic Missile Early Warning’ Space Operator at RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire or the UK Space Operations Centre at RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
You may also be selected for advancement to higher management roles, responsible for leading large teams of fellow officers and aviators. Throughout your career, you should expect operational deployments( generally of up to, but not limited to, 6 months duration) to a range of locations worldwide, together with ad-hoc shorter detachments to such locations as Cyprus, Lithuania, Gibraltar, Canada, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and the USA. The RAF also has a variety of exchange opportunities which include instructing the US Marine Corps in Arizona; the US Air Force Space Command in Colorado and the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
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