Do you fly after pilots stopping them for speeding

Advantages: Fairly well paid, travel, sports, sense of pride in what you are part of
Disadvantages: your life is not completley your own.

...An unusual question for a title. However one I was once asked when a lady found out that i was a member of the RAF Police. Im sure that everyone who reads this will have heard of the Royal Military Police (Redcaps), the British Armys police force. Well the RAF Police is the Royal Air Forces police force. They are responsible for the investigation of both criminal and security incidents that occur on RAF establishments throughout the world. The RAF Police's history dates back to the formation of the RAF on 1st April 1918 (Some might say a sign of things to come, April fools day) and have served wherever the RAF have been ever since. In fact some of the first troops to land on the beaches at Normandy on D-Day 1944, were RAF Police. They carried out route marking for the waves of troops that followed. Although you do not need any...

ian4552 28.05.2005 · Read review
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Want to be a bombhead?

Advantages: Pay, education, friends, job variety, travel, esprit de corps
Disadvantages: Sometimes unsociable hours, going to war zones, discipline

...The Royal Air Force was formed on April 1st 1918, an amalgamation of both the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). During its short history, the RAF has been involved in every war the country has ever fought in, and has played a decisive part, most notably in the Battle of Britain (1940) and the Allied bombing offensive on Germany (1941-1945). Todays RAF is very different to the war time RAF. Since the demise of the Communist bloc, the UK armed forces have been faced with severe budgetary pressures, the RAFs current strength stands at just over 50,000 with further reduction in manpower planned. Despite this, I would reccomend the RAF to just about anybody, especially those in the 16 - 24 age bracket (although you can join ground trades right up to the age of 29). For me, there was only ever one...

raflad1982 07.02.2006 · Read review
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Air Force One

Advantages: Great acting from Harrison Ford.
Disadvantages: Quite a lot of hi-jacking films about. Not most original story.

...This is another action packed film starring Harrison Ford as the President of the United States (Jim Marshall). He is travelling home with his wife, daughter and a planeload of top government officials on Air Force One - one of the most guarded planes. A few minutes into the journey the plane gets hi-jacked by terrorists led by Korshunov (Gary Oldman). Thinking the President has escaped, he then threatens to start killing passengers every half hour unless his country's imprisoned dictator is freed. Marshall then realises it is his responsibility to protect his family and the other passengers. The Vice President (Glenn Close) does her best to negotiate with the terrorists but they keep their word and stert killing passengers. The President then comes up with a plan to get the passengers of the plane by getting them to parachute...

Mary123 16.04.2001 · Read review
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Life as a Rockape

Advantages: Good Pay, Secure
Disadvantages: Get messed about a bit

...run to putting a 70lb pack on your back and speed marching (tabbing) 6 miles in under an hour and fifteen minutes. Also you spend many hours in the lecture room receiving endless amounts of lessons from when the RAF was formed to the basic functions of your weapon. You learn so much in your first six weeks and you start to change from being a civilian to a member of the Royal Air Force. ( Not the Regiment yet). Once your six weeks is up you Family is invited down to see you and how you?ve changed and you put on a small drill show for them and show them around your barrack block (where you live). At the end of this day you get a well earned break and are allowed home for a week. A few people decide to leave when they get home as they think they are missing out on something as they have been home and seen there mates. After the six weeks...

rockape0700 15.02.2004 · Read review
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Air Force One

Advantages: A good watch
Disadvantages: A little predictable

...Air Force One is a brilliant film starring Harrison Ford as the president of the United States whose plane Air Force One is hijacked in mid air and he must fight to save the lives of his wife and daughter who are held at gun point. Bravely he defies his orders to abandon the plane by his very own escape pod (!) and stays on board to help his family. One of the funniest parts is when he phones the White House where the switchboard operator refuses to put him through because she doesn't believe he is the president. All in all a brillliant blockbuster...

cathy144 27.08.2000 · Read review
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Air Force One

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...First of all, the plot is more than a bit hokey. A President staying aboard a hijacked Air Force One and playing patriot isn't likely to happen in real life. But this is an action movie, and real life doesn't really count, does it? That said, Ford is excellent (a real surprise, huh?), the terrorist is a scare, and made more beleivable by the fact that he makes good on stuff he says. This makes the sense of danger in the film all that much more intense. While much of the supporting acting is cardboard, it's the lead roles that really shine....

ros145 23.08.2000 · Read review
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air force one

Advantages: excellent action packed film
Disadvantages: dvd is a flipper

...Another excellent film starring Harrison Ford as the President of the United States. Air force one basically gets taken over by terrorists wanting their comrade to be released from prison This acting in the film is excellent because the terrorists make threats like they will kill hostages every 30minutes and thats exactly what happens. Most american "threat" movies spend hours with threats and no action but this film does actually give the impression of what terrorists are really like. gary oldman plays the head terrorist part very well. Harrison ford basically stows away and sabotages the plane from within picking off terrorists now and then. Plenty of shootings and airline action, although the crashing of the plane is the end must have been done a 1980s computer as the graphics are very poor, tey should havce crashed a real...

stelladrinker 20.11.2004 · Read review
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Air Force 1

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...Air Force One A slightly different approach today, hope you like it. Characters Harrison Ford - President James (Jim) Marshall Glenn Close - Vice President Kathryn Bennett Wendy Crewson - Grace Marshall (1st lady) Liesel Matthews - Alice Marshall (daughter) Jürgen Prochnow - General Ivan Radek (leader of Kazakhstan) Story *NEWSFLASH* News Anchor - We are getting reports that Air Force One has been hijacked. The presidential 747 Jumbo was brining officials and the whole First family home from Russia Moscow Correspondent - Well, irony of ironies, the president made a speech today around 4 hours ago, saying that America wouldn't negotiate with terrorists. This was in response to the capture of General Radek, leader of Kazakhstan, and threats towards America by his allies. Expert - That makes...

Dude2702 07.10.2002 · Read review
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The service alternative

Advantages: Opportunities at all levels
Disadvantages: Less control over your life

...Life in the armed forces is not for everyone and everyone has their own experience but I would like to offer my view of life in the Royal Air Force (RAF). You can judge from the following if it is a course you would wish to pursue. I joined the RAF in 1980 and served twelve years, leaving in the rank of Corporal. My story, as they say, follows? First, the history lesson. The Royal Air Force was formed on 1st April 1918 from the combination of the existing Royal Flying Corps (run by the Army) and Royal Naval Air Service. You will note that it didn?t take the Army and Navy long to re-establish their own air wings again, such is the nature of interservice rivalry. The RAF is the world?s first independent air force (as in not being a part of the Army or Navy). Although the public perception of the RAF is of dashing young aircrew, in...

pauljm 23.03.2001 (26.07.2001) · Read review
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Yes Sir No Sir Three Bags Full Sir

Advantages: Good for physical fitness
Disadvantages: Bad for mental stability

...The Royal Air Force is the junior of all the British Armed Forces being born as the Air Flying Corps and during the first world war finally becoming the RAF, that we all know today. Everyone that joins up will tell you that their experiences are different from anyone elses, they would be correct. With so many trades and so many different places you can be posted to, there is no two identical stories that you will ever hear from anyone that has or is in any of the forces. My joining the RAF was almost a cop-out really, I was newly trained as a chef, but didn't want to work split shifts in a hotel, so the best alternative was a career in the RAF. I thought I would get to see the world and would become an officer and get to fly fighter jets (hey I was young)! For Obvious Military Secrets Act reasons I can't give as many details as...

tommartin 29.01.2001 · Read review
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