It will all be over soon....unless the governor gives me a reprieve

After many months of not knowing finally those with the power to destroy peoples lives...(DACOS Manning) have posted me. Now despite filling in JPA and selecting a negative choice of posting all those years ago of "2nd Line on Aircraft" and "Norfolk" I will give you 1 guess as to where I am heading in August.

Now despite pleading over the last 2 weeks and even finding a suitable placement for myself at the AWC at RAF Wadington (the building without any windows, where nobody wants to work). I was told I have two choices "like it or lump it". So I have had to go with lump it, but not quietly as I will go kicking and screaming into the darks of Norfolk. So hear my reasons for not wanting to go.

1. The house excuse and the fact that I can not commute the 90 mins everyday to work safely as well as returning at the end of a busy night shift the 60 miles home. Nor can I afford to live in and have the house, this would be to great a financial burden for me. Selling the house is not an option as I am currently in the middle of major repairs and it will be many years before it is ready to sell, let alone for a profit after the recent market crash.

2. With all the commuting that I would have to do training would suffer and then so would my work and possibly my social life. I am a dependant of sport. I use it to make friends, suppress the rage of work and provide myself with a better quality of life. Without it I am a no one! Also by working for BAE at CMU they have a clocking in and out system and require so many Manhours a week to under fulfil their requirement to the RAF contract and as a result do not openly allow people to have time of for sport unless the powers above tell them. I shouldn't have to get people to fight my battles for me.

3. BAE are openly recruiting the dregs of the RAF to fill the under manning at CMU as a result one of these cretins will be my boss.

4. I work volunteraliy every week with Lincoln Tri club, coaching the adults at Waddington, Tattershall Lakes and the Juniors for 2 hours every Friday. With a move to Marham I would have to give up an enjoyable part of my week. I may also have to give up the refereeing as the weekends would be spent trying to resolve a life I once had and volunteering would become a thing of the past.

5. I have hated the entire year I have spent at Marham on courses, detachments and secondments to CMU since Oct 2001 and do not wish to spend anymore time than I have to.

Ending on a good note though I am promoted....and in the next 8 weeks will find out if I was selected to attend IOT.