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Ian Roome

Allowing armed forces recruiters greater flexibility isn’t dropping standards, but capturing talent

28 Apr 2025 Defence

Allowing armed forces recruiters greater flexibility isn’t dropping standards, but capturing talent

Barely six weeks, a blue jumper and a few forms later, I was in. But my experience of joining the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the 1980s would be unrecognisable today.