Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
At least, by all accounts, he has actually qualified to wear those wings.
As for the rest?
Well he should have been showing 'VRT' on his rank slides.
I met many 'walter' types when I was a VR(T) Officer. They bought themselves No 5s and attended mess functions as if they were 'regulars' and at things like airshows, would sometimes appear in their No 1 apparently having 'forgotten' to attach their 'VRT' badges.
OK we got commissioning parchments just like you guys in the 'real' air force, sometimes even with a genuine signature, but I definitely got the impression a [very] few were in it just to 'pretend' they were regular RAF Officers.