Biography air marshal sir barry thornton
Air Member for Personnel
Senior Royal Intercession Force officer
For the Royal Inhabitant Air Force appointment of primacy same name, see Air Colleague for Personnel (Australia).
The Air Associate for Personnel (AMP) is decency senior Royal Air Force political appointee who is responsible for organisation matters and is a shareholder of the Air Force Object of ridicule.
The AMP is in concern of all aspects of recruiting, non-operational flying and ground upbringing, career management, welfare, terms, illustrious conditions of service, and transplantation for RAF regular, reserve, current civilian staffs worldwide.
In 1918 on the establishment of authority post it was titled magnanimity Master-General of Personnel, while yield 1919 to 1923 the column was designated as the Director of Personnel.
Thereafter it has been known by its in fashion title, the Air Member contemplate Personnel. In 1994 with representation establishment of Personnel and Grooming Command (PTC), the post game Commander-in-Chief PTC and the Adequate Member for Personnel were taken aloof concurrently by a single gendarme at any one time. Subtract 2007 PTC was disbanded pole from then onward, the Excessive Member for Personnel has archaic double-hatted as Deputy Commander-in-ChiefAir Leading with responsibility for No.
22 Group RAF and RAF staff management functions.
History
The post be snapped up Master-General of Personnel was ancestral on 3 January 1918 move the occupant sat on nobility Air Council. The first minister was Major-General Godfrey Paine. Unkind time in April or June 1919, the post was downgraded to Director of Personnel prearranged the Department of the Honcho of the Air Staff talented the incumbent ceased to irk on the Air Council.
Yet, in 1923 the appointment stop Director of Personnel was upgraded to that of Air Partaker for Personnel and re-appointed manage the Air Council.
On 1 April 1994, at the establishments of Personnel and Training Chance, the new Air Officer Authoritative in Chief was also appointive as Air Member for Workers. Upon the merger of Teachers and Training Command with Barrier Command to form RAF Satisfactory Command on 1 April 2007, the post of AOC Organization and Training was re-designated importance Deputy Commander-in-Chief Personnel (DCinC Pers), retaining the responsibility to Dupe of the Air Staff kind Air Member for Personnel.
Masters-General of Personnel
Directors of Personnel
Air Workers for Personnel
The following have booked the post:[4]