Roland Pulfrew
He always used to say that the beret was only for Regiment Officers and airmen; a real officer would never choose to wear one
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Funny, when I was a young Regiment officer we didn't consider aircrew as real officers - something to do with few of them ever having experience of command, at least until well into their careers. (eg I had 80 blokes in my flight at Seletar when I was 20).
Of course when I converted to aircrew I rapidly became a typical crew room cowboy and changed my views entirely!
By the way as a Rockape I had a really snazzy Gieves officer's beret - do officers now make do with stores' ones? Some of them look suspiciously like it
