Timelord - a fine list, apart from one.
Award of flying badges to non flying personnel
Care to unpick that one? If you are talking about the Space Operators Badge, then it is
not a flying badge and is
not listed with the flying badges in QR206. It also looks distinctly different next to a flying badge with its silver grey wings, a blue laurel wreath and the normal space ‘delta’/orbit insignia inside the wreath with the constellation of Aries over laid. It replaced the, horror of horrors, 2-winged USAF space badge that our folks had been wearing at Vandenburg, Buckley and Fylingdales. So, whilst I agree that Sir Wokey of Wokeston has a few things to lay as his feet, this is not one of them, I would offer?
If you’re talking about the RPAS flyers, then that was policy before he was appointed (and I disagree with the idea that they should not get flying badges for flying and operating an air vehicle on combat operations). Our RPAS crews are some of the most combat proven and relevant, seeing what the TB2 has achieved in Ukraine, amongst our aircrew cadre.
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