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Successful attendance at the course is required of any person who plans to train as an officer in the RAF Regiment. A candidate will be at least 17 years and 6 months of age at entrance, will hold a British passport, will have a minimum of 5 GCSEs graded A-C and 2 A-levels, or will have achieved a certified comparable education.
From there selection interviews take place to pick candidates who will move forward to join the UAS. Candidates must also pass a RAF entry fitness test and medical. [7] [9] After completing the selection process successfully candidates are formally attested and mustered at the rank of Officer Cadet, [4] and their training can commence.
In the Royal Air Force (RAF), the score is the MES, which stands for "Medical Employment Status." In the other branches, the score is the PES, which stands for "PULHHEEMS Employment Status". This PES is used to determine whether the soldier is " employable in full combatant duties (in any area) in any part of the world " or if they must remain ...
The Royal Air Force Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC), at Adastral Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, is the centre through which every potential RAF officer must go to be selected for Initial Officer Training (IOT) and through which potential non-commissioned aircrew must go to be selected for the Direct Entry Senior Non-commissioned Officer (DE-SNCO) course.
This is the endurance and navigation portion of selection and tests for physical fitness, mental determination, and capacity for self-sufficiency. The Hills Phase lasts 4 weeks, with candidates having to perform increasingly difficult loaded marches , navigating between checkpoints individually using only a compass and hand-drawn sketch map.
The RAF Regiment continued to be involved in Hong Kong into the mid-1970s providing protection at both RAF Kai Tak and at the radar station at Tai Mo Shan. [28] RAF Regiment Forward Air Controllers (FACs) guide a Typhoon from 6 Squadron onto their target at the Cape Wrath practice range in Scotland
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The first, second, and third placed teams from each of the six regions qualify for the national finals, held at RAF Halton in Spring each year. The competition involves a round robin of activities that include: RAF Knowledge (13 Cadets) Drill and Uniform (13 Cadets) Command Task (13 Cadets) Shooting (4 Cadets) Aircraft Recognition (4 Cadets)