Dependant or not.

[Roadster280]

ABIW. Quite right. Good job I was a filthy pongo then, not in the RAF. I just served on a couple of glorious holiday camps with 244 Sig Sqn (AS). I was a MAOT det cdr. Best couple of years in the mob. Always will have respect for (straight, non tree hugging) Royal Air Force troops.

I was only joshing P-A-F. Sydney's a very long way to go for a team hug. And I'm not playing if it involves anything more than back slapping. No tree hugging neither. We nuke trees and f***ing well enjoy it.

Warfare, not welfare.

Anyway, ID Cards. F1250s. MOD90s. Whatever the matelots call them.

[Skeleton]

are you lot seriously saying that dep passes have been done away with and you think its a good idea?
Grow up.. better still, for the majority of you wait until you get married and your spouse heads off camp to get your rattle, and then spends ten minutes of her day trying to get back on camp.
She wont do it often, she will get a public bus that the guards are not allowed to stop. I will not say where.
Stop..think.. then think again.
Have you?
Thought not

[Kitbag]

Personally I think most of us are grown up enough not to need our spouses running after us or fetching the 'rattle'. Gotta say Mrs KB has never regarded herself as 'wife of' and does truly find it offensive.

[tonkatechie]

Mrs Tonkatechie works on the basis that all wives are one rank higher than their husbands anyway, and as such, I should do as I'm bloody well told. This also gives her the right to leave her id card in the car's sun visor, and give me a massive bking if I dare to move it to somewhere more secure

[mrwickets]

Don't know (or care) if my wife's / dependant's / mate's ID Card is valid, but it sure flumaxed a MOD Plod at a 'station in South West England' recently. Having been given the old "don't care if she is your wife, she can't come in here!" sketch, the little red card took the 'permission to be a smug B**tard grin' off his face and he let her in. He did tell me the following day though that his supervisor had decreed that RAF wife's / dependant's / mate's / whatever ID Cards were not valid on MOD sites. Beg's the question therefore, why do we have them? Its a bit like producing your ID Card to get into an RAF station and then being asked to smile at a camera so they can have another photo for their files!

[Skunkerama]

Originally Posted by Always_broken_in_wilts

Now I find that statement highly offensive, Roadster, you bl@@dy homophobe

A guy offers you a "team" hug and you jump to the conlcusion that he wants to slip you a crippler as opposed to an innocent apologetic hug. This sort of gender specific behaviour has no place in the modern RAF and is a slap in the face to all gay/bi sexual/in touch with their feminine side guys and you should be ashamed of yourself

all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol indeuced

Stop being beef.

[vecvechookattack]

Family ID cards (as we Matelots call them) are alive and well in the Senior Service. Why would anyone want to get rid of them? What purpose does getting rid of them serve other than to Pi$$ people off?

PS Our "Family" ID cards are also available for Fathers, Mothers, Wives and Girlfriends (May they never meet) as well as to Children over the age of 15