What is really odd is that we have, since the instigation of WSO brevets,
invented new ones for Image Analysts to go with Airborne Techs and Fighter
Controllers (or Air Battlespace Managers as they are now known) - what a
cluster!
The Fighter Control and Airborne Technicians wing are no longer "brevets" - they are termed as "flying badges". As an aside, the first FC to be awarded his badge was on AEW Shackletons. A Scottish reporter at his graduation was heard to comment "I thought that FC Brevet was an Italian football team".
I was one of those Navs who continued to wear the old badge rather than WSO. I had been awarded that badge after much sweat and tears - I was not going to give it up for something different! (The AE bretheren probably want to wear something with more taste - hence the larger uptake of the WSO/WSOp badge for them).