I have 4 years left to serve and at my exit point I, for one will not be applying for, or ever wearing the badge. The pension and gratuity are appreciated but the notion that I am going to advertise my previous employment in this manner is plain daft.
I am not for one minute suggesting that it will make a terrorist target of those that wear them but it will potentially make being in public problematic.
There are plenty of folk out there who do not agree with the military and all that we stand for. There are plenty of folk out there who violently disagree with what we are currently up in both theatres. What are the odds, if out for a quiet drink on some drunken Muppet deciding he's tougher than any "military type" and decides to try and prove it
Sorry but after eventually spending 38 odd years in the service of my country and all the dangers that go with that I look forward to the anonymity that civilian life offers and will not be courting any further grief courtesy of this badge
