Originally Posted by
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This isn't as 'off thread' as it appears - and I've always been curious. In the mid '60s at Cottesmore there was a corporal, early forties I suppose, who wore pilots wings. No ribbons, not even a GSM, just wings. How'd that happen?
National service pilot left and remustered as an airman.
Siloth had a cpl steward pilot plus medals - lovely mess, all highly polished tables and sparkling linen and that in a nissan hut mess.