Is your name badge being sold on eBay?
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Is your name badge being sold on eBay?
Check this guy out. I was quite dis-chuffed to find my own name badge being sold by this guy!
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZwww.thegacQQhtZ-1
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZwww.thegacQQhtZ-1
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Check this guy out. I was quite dis-chuffed to find my own name badge being sold by this guy!
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZwww.thegacQQhtZ-1
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZwww.thegacQQhtZ-1
mind you ..... it could well be someone you would never wish to meet ........
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I asked the guy if he owned these badges and this is the reply I got:
"I bought these at auction therefore I am the owner. what exactly is the point that you are trying to make."
No Whaaa.
"I bought these at auction therefore I am the owner. what exactly is the point that you are trying to make."
No Whaaa.
I was in an Army surplus store once (I don't go in them usually - I was trying to buy some cheap boots for my son for the cadets - honest!) and I saw some name badges on the wall - some of people I used to work with. I asked where the shop got them from, it appears they were on flying suits that arrived as their stock.
So if you don't want your name appearing on the flying suit of some wannabe at an airshow, remove them (or get the suippers to) when you hand your romper suits in.
So if you don't want your name appearing on the flying suit of some wannabe at an airshow, remove them (or get the suippers to) when you hand your romper suits in.
In the same vein, there's an army surplus shop in Taunton that has rails full of CS95 shirts and Jerseys, Heavy Wool, almost all of which have 'RM Commando ' shoulder flashes, TRFs and in some cases para wings still attached.
I'd have thought that to attempt to supress walting (or, more seriously, attempts to pass oneself off as a Marine at main gate somewhere) someone might have thought about removing this stuff before sending it out to surplus stores. Given the penchant some people have for collecting badges, it's no surprise that these get snipped off and sold separately.
I'd have thought that to attempt to supress walting (or, more seriously, attempts to pass oneself off as a Marine at main gate somewhere) someone might have thought about removing this stuff before sending it out to surplus stores. Given the penchant some people have for collecting badges, it's no surprise that these get snipped off and sold separately.
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Archimedes - you can go to Silvermans and many others and buy all the kit, badges etc. new and unissued, and sew them on yourself, so stripping them off before disposal really makes no odds. I don't think too many Walts have got past the guardroom just because they had all the badges and clothing, but without a current ID.
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On a slightly related note, I do remember an Aussie chap during a Fincastle beerathon, being interviewed live on Morayfirth-ray-deee-oHHH! and introduced as Flt Lt Yorrick Hunt. 
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Simple PERSEC really.... Take all the Badges/Name Tags etc off the kit before handing in to the stores... 
Won't take long and can normaly be acheived a lot quicker than 'speedy' behind the counter finding the new kit on the shelf...
Won't take long and can normaly be acheived a lot quicker than 'speedy' behind the counter finding the new kit on the shelf...
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Oh man - "Pants on" and "Daz" ..... words fail me.
I still have my old, classy, "Combined U N Tac Sqn" VIZ character badge, you might remember it from such operations as 'Deny Flight' ... I could get millions for that!
Perhaps this guy bought them from The Ambiorix (or however you spelt it - I never looked anywhere but at my cloudy weissbeer) in the square at Leuven?
I still have my old, classy, "Combined U N Tac Sqn" VIZ character badge, you might remember it from such operations as 'Deny Flight' ... I could get millions for that!
Perhaps this guy bought them from The Ambiorix (or however you spelt it - I never looked anywhere but at my cloudy weissbeer) in the square at Leuven?
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I thought all badges affixed to grobags were now attached to velcro to maintain persec when on ops ?
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Yeah that's the whole point! Some cheeky oik has stolen one of my badges and has sold it on eBay! Nobody really gives a badge away, it just sits in a drawer just in case you get posted back - right?
Some dude could be causing mayhem somewhere on the airshow circuit soon as me!
Anyway, it just got on my tits that's all.
Some dude could be causing mayhem somewhere on the airshow circuit soon as me!
Anyway, it just got on my tits that's all.