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Old 25th Nov 2018, 12:47
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Easy Street
 
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TTN - the first SHADER DFC was this one.

Traffic - citations are significantly condensed from the recommendations upon which awards are made and omit any sensitive information. Therefore you can’t look at a citation and say that it doesn’t pass muster, because it isn’t the full story.

Interestingly when a Tornado crew did something very similar to this most recent award a couple of years back, the result was an AFC for the pilot. Since the gallantry requirement for both awards is equal and the additional requirement of the DFC is ‘on active operations against the enemy’, not ‘in the face of the enemy’ or ‘seeing the whites of the eyes’ or ‘under fire’ or such, it goes to show how there can be variation from list to list within a single operation, let alone between different operations.

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