I'd happily wear that badge as opposed to yellow-bellied, spineless, ignorant, naive and a sell-out.
No, beached, simply applying to be an i-cadet does not make one yellow-bellied, spineless or a sell-out (you have to have principles before you can sell them out). Naive - probably, and ignorant (at least about CX) Yes.
But it is the B scale pilots who sit back and do nothing (except whining or ranting on pprune) who are the real yellow-bellied, spineless sell-outs.