Perhaps I'm happy to cherry-picked what the Americans seem to do as a matter of course, but what impressed me about this otherwise informal ceremony was the deliberate inclusion of family - stressing (as they do in the US Army) that it's the family that is serving, and in these days of high op tempo, that has never been truer. Some of you here might remember the promotion of a USAF Lt Col in MB a few years ago - in Mem Court. His daughter sang both National Anthems and the service was attended by ACAS. I Doubt there was a dry eye about!
Perhaps that might have been regarded as a bit OTT, but I wish I was back in a Command Appointment and I would institute regular, family recognition.