Career Interviews
Career Interviews
Towards the end of our training we were given another career interview. The officers asked if I still wanted to join the RAF police but I had a change of heart mainly by watching the police in the camp. They were another group who wore two stripes but were only L.A.C. Acting Corporals and were universally disliked by the other airmen mainly because of their attitude to them. So I asked if could opt for another job and they said that would be OK. We had been shown films of all the various trades, etc. available to us and I had fancied working in the stores. They said I would be better off in a proper trade as I had been a tradesman in civvy street. They suggested becoming an armourer and said I would be trained at Kirkham near Blackpool for three months during the summer. This appealed to me so I said OK. In retrospect, it might have been better to have learned a trade which would have been more useful after I left the RAF but I wasn’t thinking that far ahead. There isn’t much call for arming up aircraft in civvy street.
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