Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I strongly support honours for bravery etc - but for doing your job well? The reward for that should be accelerated promotion (or more money in civie street)
And the clear and very formal association with rank is obvious - are we really saying that EVERY AM and AVM did a better job than EVERY one of the recipients of the OBE? Very very doubtful
It’s so obvious that it’s actually laid out for the public to see at Annex A to Chapter 4 of
JSP761. Orders of chivalry originated as ways of recognising armed service so I have no difficulty with the concept of very senior officers being knighted for doing their job very well.
How do you give accelerated promotion to a senior officer when the number of available posts is so small? And yes, a AM who has done sufficiently well to warrant state recognition will have done a ‘better job’ than a wg cdr because the span of their responsibilities is so much greater and they are able to make more of a difference to the success of the wider organisation.
Meanwhile the lack of a ‘K’ for the new chief probably stems from the fact that he only became a 3* just over a year ago and the submissions for this list had to be in several months ago, so he wouldn’t have accrued enough ‘evidence’ in a rank eligible for knighthood. Would be very surprising if he’s not on the next list or the one after, though.
Congratulations to all on the list!