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Personal benefit of the Raf

  • Ken Wright
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

And what happens is that the

who is

perhaps wandering in life and wondering,

I don't want to go to university.

Maybe I don't want an apprenticeship.

Maybe I'm tired of academia,

wondering what to do.

Just sign up for three years,

pick a service and go in.

it will be a foundation.

You might not like it.

I think you probably will.

But you might not.

But it will give you a foundation.

It will give you the basic life

with your life, and you'll find yourself

all through your career.

Something as basic for a young man.

And, in this day and age, as a young man,

as basic as that,

ability to walk into a room

the ability to recognize

that timekeeping

that's perhaps

those simple skills set you up for life.

every career that the military offers

has very nearly a civilian

alternative that in this day

and age is desperate for those skills

via air traffic control, be it

be it

anything that you learn

as a trade group, in whichever military

there is a vacancy

So you're not going to be unemployed.

You're going to be able

and use those skills either

And that's what I'm grateful for.

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