I am aware that during a recent graduation, along with the award of Wings/Flying Badges a sixpence was given to each of the graduating aircrew. Great to see an old tradition being reinstated.
However, with such a short life in comparison to the other Services, I wonder why we elected to replace all the various Brevets QM/AE/E/S/LM with a single badge? Surely, to preserve some of our history, keeping the different brevets should have been the way forward.
Before anyone rattles off the doctrine behind WSOs/WSOps I have read the paper aswell, but everyone still refers to all the trades by the original brevet title - Thats Nav in old money or AEO........etc
So is there any chance of getting them back?