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Crews were often lost at sea during the Second World War, with an attrition rate of 80%, which prompted the training to be initiated. [1] [2] Prior to the DSTO being established, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force provided their own survival training and the Resistance Training Wing provided the services with conduct after capture training.
Royal Air Force and Army Co-operation School RAF (1918–19) became School of Army Co-operation RAF [66] Royal Air Force and Navy Co-operation School (1919) became Royal Air Force Seaplane Establishment [67] Royal Air Force School of Army Co-operation (1943–44) became School of Air Support RAF [20] Royal Air Force School, India (1921–22) [68]
An interior shot of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) is a British military academic establishment providing training and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving officers of other states.
Qualified Weapons Instructor (QWI) (queue-why) is a qualification given to graduates of the British Armed Forces Qualified Weapons Instructor courses. It is the equivalent to the United States Air Force (USAF) Weapons School Course or United States Navy (USN) Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center warfare schools (including United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program or ...
In 2012, it joined three other technical training colleges under a combined organisation, the Defence College of Technical Training, and reverted in title to being a Defence School. On 17 January 2007, Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne announced that Metrix UK , a joint venture between Qinetiq and Land Securities , had been selected as ...
166 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Colchester from 1939 and later at Douglas, Isle of Man, where it was lent to the Royal Air Force to train officers of the RAF Regiment. 168 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Aldershot; The Royal Armoured Corps Officer Cadet Training Unit was at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1944 to 1945
The Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit (JFACTSU) is a training unit located at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, England. The unit teaches students from across all three services of the British Armed Forces (and international allies) to become Forward Air Controllers (FACs). Forward Air Controllers, working from a forward ...
No.1 Flying Training School trains all military helicopter crews for the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the British Army's Army Air Corps. [11] Airbus provides and maintains the Juno HT1 and Jupiter HT1 helicopters and Babcock and Lockheed Martin have contracts for infrastructure and ground Based Training Equipment.