Originally Posted by
thunderbird7
Just reading a book about the Rhodesian SAS. There was a bit of a hoo-ha with the air force over badge wearing when the SAS made the wearing of jump wings on the left breast a special award and a mark of recognition within the regiment. In that context, it seemed a worthy award. One might get ones knickers in a twist about RPAS operators wearing wings but then again there's more important things to worry about just now. Which begs the question, doesn't OIC badges have anything better to do just now? He'll have to change the crown in a few years time - lets hope he/she has some worthwhile secondary duties to tide themselves over with in the meantime...
...you forgot the bar stewards....
To be fair, it needed sorting out. The correct process for the awarding of flying badges has not been followed since after the AE badge was authorised, and so technically many RAF personnel have been wearing unauthorised badges and so have been incorrectly dressed for most of their careers! (Much to the amusement of the other services). A new process was designed for the RPAS pilot badge, but having published a new process, even that was not followed at the time. This work has been going on for some time, and the correction of the RAF's heritage errors with uniform as finally been made and tied in with a new set of properly and officially authorised FLYING BADGES (not Brevets). All that needs to happen now is the educate the Top Brass who "The Few" actually were in Churchill's speech at the end of the Battle of Britain and hope that that error is finally nipped in the bud.