COMMISSIONS IN AIR FORCE
ABOLITION OF PERCENTAGES SYSTEM?
P.A. Cable.
LONDON, Oct. 13.
The status of New Zealand and Australian air crew members is likely to be improved as a result of a forthcoming London conferenee between representatives of those two air forces and the R.A.F., says the Associated Press. Canada, the fourth partner in the Empire air scheme, has already departed from the original policy whereby commissions were granted to air-crew personnel on a fixed percentage of pilots, observers, and others. The Canadian? Air Force spokesman said that Canada for some time had been pursuing a more aggressive commissioning policy for all air-crew members than the R.A.F. or any other Dominion. "Canadian policy is that all air-crew personnel shall be commissioned if of eomrnissionable quality. They have the right to apply for commissions through their commanding officer without necessarily awaiting his recommendation." The abolition of commissioning on a percentage basis would remove the most serious obstacle in the way of more commissions for New Zealand and Australian air-crews who have earned status equivalent to their American and Canadian comrades. ■*r
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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181COMMISSIONS IN AIR FORCE Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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