Pro`s,
Better work ethic/employment of trade skills.
Dedicated Install Teams.
Better planning and use of resources.
Lots of travel, worth while taskings.
Loads of gongs!
No handbags
Con`s
Spend 10 months in a sleeping bag.
Poor understanding of Corps buisness, lack of field knowledge.
Lack of employment/posting variety.
Chances of being available for courses is limited.
Gong mounting costs!
In the cross hairs for trade restructure
By the way Mic, TeleMechs have long gone and pretty much what they did too. Your all Inst Techs now like it or not

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The main problem is you will bounce between Corsham (and its troops) and Cyprus. NI is nearly over an done with. Gib is still there all though positions are limited. Cyprus for now is hanging in there but the more network that moves to DFTS the less the requirement for a dedicated Troop of Inst Techs. Unfortunatley the whole comms front has moved on significantly and has been fully de-skilled. The advent of structured cabling and its reliability has negated expensive faulting/maint contracts.
The Corps requirement lies within capabilty on Ops mostly internal with an element of external plant, homefront is mostly commercial. Interesting work at first but most people dont have the legs for continual tours living in the same conditions while watching counterparts getting the full Op tour package (leave etc).
The RSM of 10SR put across a very good point about how Inst Techs could become very sheltered to the Corps as a whole leaving them weak on the RD roster.
We shall have to suck it and see how it goes, personally I am not to confident about the trades future although Corsham could go along way to securing it. It is too early to tell.
Get yourself over there and enjoy!