Originally Posted by
alfred_the_great
part of the “problem” with the State Lists is that they tend (ISA tend) to honour sustained acts over the course of an appointment or two well above and beyond “being a good individual”.
as an example, one of the OF5s on today’s list co-ordinated the staff effort in the MoD for IR: it was a herculean effort, and one that an OR2 wouldn’t get the opportunity to do (and thus be honoured for).
I wrote up one of my FS for an MBE about 10 years ago precisely because he’d been bloody good at his job. It went through and he got his gong. A short while later I read a comment that CAS was a bit put out that only one person had been nominated for an MBE on the basis of excellent professional performance in post - my FS - rather than saving the world on ops or because they’d donated a kidney or spent all their time doing extra duties, and he’d like to see more of it.
I guess the memo didn’t filter down.