Pontius - The Air Quartermaster brevet used to actually say QM. Because the poor chaps got fed up with being alikened to Flying Storemen they stole the USAFdescription of Loadmaster.... but still provision the rations!
Yep, I think I mentioned that in my earlier post, however as the original source of Air Quartermasters was from the Ground Supply trade group (AMO A115/62), you can almost see what the powers that be were thinking, for a change.
As far as linguists are concerned, did they not fly for years as 'Signallers' with the old 'S' style badge. In the 70s and 80s they were a little
'hush, hush' but I see now that they are a trade listed on the RAF careers site under WSOps.
Are A/T (Airborne Technicians) still going and do they fall into the same catagory as the F/C lot.