Apart from those of us who are ex military, (RAF) all the Brit F/E's who work for my current employer are ex GE's, and maintain the currency of their JARR maintenance licence. I am certainly not daft enough to presume that I am better than them just because I was an RAF trained Flight Engineer (Topcliffe 1970-71)! In fact all our British TRI/TRE's are ex GE's, not RAF ones I hasten to add!
So please, lets cut the cr@p!