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No. 3 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941–42) became No. 3 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF [6] No. 4 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941–43) became No. 4 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF [6] No. 5 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941–44) became Air Navigation and Bombing School RAF [6]
Under the present organisation of the RAF, the Commandant reports to Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group [33] who has Service-wide responsibility for training. From 1920 to 1936 the College Commandant was double-hatted as the Air Officer Commanding RAF Cranwell. 1 November 1919 Air Commodore C. A. H. Longcroft (5 February 1920 appointed AOC RAF ...
The school's current incarnation began on 1 February 1989 when it became part of RAF Cranwell by redesignating the flying element of the Royal Air Force College [4] and undertook the basic flying training of some graduates from Initial Officer Training at the co-located RAF College Cranwell, other graduates going to RAF Linton-on-Ouse.
Originally, Alconbury Elementary and Middle High Schools did not exist. In 1951, the RAF Molesworth School was opened, and it enrolled students from grades 1 to 9. [4] Between the time it opened and the time schools closed on RAF Molesworth, there was Alconbury Elementary, Molesworth Junior High School, and Lakenheath High School.
There are plenty of reasons young recruits should join the military, Paschall said -- the discipline and the sense of loyalty and duty in military life are all selling points he brings up. But mainly, he likes the idea of being a mentor. "As a recruiter, when we meet these young men and women, we take a personal bond to them," he added.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the school was part of RAF Technical Training Command. [11] The last boys entrant course passed out of the school in 1965, by which time over 13,000 personnel had been trained since the end of the Second World War; thereafter the school focussed on technical training of men. [12]
On 7 October 1926, the school moved from Upavon to RAF Wittering, but on 30 August 1935 it returned to Upavon [2] Due to the Second World War the school was redesignated as No. 7 Flying Instructors School RAF on 1 April 1942. [3] The school was reformed from the disbandment of the Empire Central Flying School RAF on 7 May 1946 at RAF Little ...
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