Originally Posted by
pba_target
Brevet is no assurance them civvie types will know what you do! Got stopped by a salesman at a motorway service station whilst in 1's trying to sell me some piece of tat or other. Came to the end of the conversation and he asked "so what is it you do then?" and genuinely had no idea I was in the military at all....
But whose fault is that? If our public never see their forces in uniform in the UK, then they're not going to have a clue what our uniforms look like. All they are used to seeing is the DPMs on the news.
All this started with the PIRA campaign against the forces in the 80's, and unfortunately our identity hasn't recovered since.