Old-Duffer wrote:
Come 1 Apr 64 and its all change (again).
a. Get rid of Cpl Tech and Senior Tech
b. Turn everyones stripes up the same way
c. Limit rank titles to Junior Tech (with new 4 blade propeller badge) Cpl, Sgt, Chief Tech (with 4 bladed prop instead of crown), Flt Sgt & Warrant Officer
Someone's written about this before, and it didn't make sense then and still doesn't. I was a J/T Air Radio Fitter on 230 OCU at Finningley up until November 1965 - never wore a four bladed prop, just single upside down chevron. In November 65 promoted to Cpl Tech and posted to Sharjah. Have photo of self in KD with two upside down chevrons in January 1966 in the desert. The change may have been promulgated in '64, but was the changeover a gradual thing? Seems unlikely, but !!!