Aaagh!
wearing an AG brevet rather than wings
has no brevet at all
It’s a FLYING BADGE, always has been in King’s Orders, Queen’s Orders, King’s Regulations and Queen’s Regulations. Never, ever, a brevet apart from misguided sub-orders that get corrected from time to time for their error.
Current QRJ206 refers: “Flying Badges - Wearing of.”
Also, RAF IBN16/20 recently gave this update:
Use of the term ‘Flying Badge’. With acknowledgement to the work of the RAF Historical Society, it appears that sometimes the word ‘Brevet’ has been incorrectly used. Ever since the 1912 report on Aerial Navigation, and a subsequent King’s Order, the correct term has been ‘Flying Badge’ and not the incorrect term ‘Brevet’. The word ‘brevet’ is, in fact, French and means a ‘diploma’ or ‘certificate’. It is thought that the error crept in through the years via the confusion when aircrew were presented with a brevet (a certificate) at the same time as a flying badge. All documentation with erroneous use of the word ‘Brevet’ shall be corrected forthwith.
