Graduation Flypast

22 years and 8 days after I stood on the RAFC Cranwell Parade Square to graduate as an RAF Officer, I finally got to see it from the other side, sitting with the Reviewing Officer's (Chief of the Air Staff) wife. I am acutely aware of how hard they have worked, as we were all on the journey together over the last 24 weeks. I was directly involved in what was their last assessment, and am very proud that so many achieved success at the end. Onwards and upwards! Little do they realise that the hard work really begins for most of them now that they are commissioned. Oh, and the flypast was from a Chinook...