If you’re thinking about a career in the Royal Air Force, you don’t have to worry too much about passing a fitness test if you know how to train with the keyboard.
The head of RAF has signaled to hire people with data and digital technology skills. Even if you can’t push up for a period of time or do it before dawn, it’s becoming more and more important in a world where technical advantage is essential to the military. To be successful.
Individuals with autism and other forms of neurodiversity also RAFSaid Sir Mike Wigston, Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
At RAF’s annual Air Force and Space Power Conference, he is broadest as his service focus expands from high-speed jet, transport, and helicopter flights to ranged combat using machines, cords, and man-made objects. Intelligence that emphasized the need to hire from a pool of talent.
Many of the Air Force recruiters today “are still in service in 2040, so that’s the army we need to recruit,” he said with fellow Air Force Chiefs of Staff who traveled to London from around. I told the staff meeting. world.
“It’s about data and digital, and … you probably don’t need someone who has to pass a physical test,” he said.
“We can have different standards. We can see different parts of society that we have not traditionally adopted. But that is the nature of the fighter of the 2040s, and So, as part of our agile thinking, we need to start hiring today, given the technology of 2040 and the demographics of the workforce that will operate it. “
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The RAF, Army, and Royal Navy have basic fitness tests that most recruits must pass. These criteria will continue to apply for the role that may see the aviator in the combat zone, but the RAF chief will apply for fitness if he is likely to spend time behind the computer in a safe place. I have shown that it makes no sense to exclude.
“As an army, I think we should be able to have conversations, sound conversations about different physical standards, different neurodiversity standards, and be ready for those conversations,” said Air Force General Wigston. I told the journalist after the speech.
“I think it’s important to be prepared and prepared for the future by taking advantage of the widest pool of talents in each country’s workforce.”