Thank you for your helpful response
Whopity - the abbreviations may have changed but it sounds very similar to how it used to be.
Unfortunately life didn’t afford me the opportunity to keep my ratings valid in the early years but the skills have been greatly utilised in the multicrew world.
I hope more don’t join our discard pile after years of loyal service. Just try to be kind and helpful - we’re going through hell out here and are trying to find ways to keep our homes and food on our tables. We know there are no jobs, we don’t need people kicking us whilst we’re down.