I'm somewhat intrigued by this award. My understanding was that the issue of RAF pilots "wings" to SRs was specifically refused by the custodian of the RAF Flying Badge (Group Captain Flying Training - when we had the post); or has someone changed QRs (or was it MAFL?) to allow this to happen?
I thought the agreement reached was that SR pilots would wear ATr company wings when on military/SR duty, unless they had previously been awarded wings by the RAF, FAA or AAC in which case they could wear those when on military duty.
I've met some of the new SRs and they seem a good bunch, with lots of experience, but I, like others on here, think that this degrades the achievement of being awarded RAF "wings". And as for AAR currency once every 6 months - dream on!