Prince of Wales, wings on Royal Navy No 5s?
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Should The Queen (God Bless Her) be referred to as HM and not HRH?
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I was always told to address her as "Your Majesty" for the first part of the conversation and "Ma'am" if she found me interesting enough to ask further questions...
Just asking.
I was always told to address her as "Your Majesty" for the first part of the conversation and "Ma'am" if she found me interesting enough to ask further questions...
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Should The Queen (God Bless Her) be referred to as HM
The comment "Seems like HRH has got it right" refers to the PoW, wearing his para wings on his right sleeve in post #1, given that one graduate in the photo is wearing them in the same position (unless they are in fact some kind of sword tip decoration used by the Bermuda Defence Force).
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Ray D: As so often in my life, I stand corrected.
He'll be addressed as "Your Royal Highness" and subsequently "Sir", I imagine? I wouldn't know as he's never met me.
He'll be addressed as "Your Royal Highness" and subsequently "Sir", I imagine? I wouldn't know as he's never met me.
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Ah, now there's someone I really would like to meet; a man after my own heart and a gallant NO to boot! 
Grumpy Old Man? Me? Perish the thought. Mrs Ex has it all wrong - for once.
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I'm fairly certain I'm the only graduate of BRNC to wear wings of the David Stirling variety 
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And I have recently heard of another, ex-23, so that makes three at least. Almost as exclusive as my Selection; 1,200 applicants, 273 starters and nine finishers.
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Yep, 'twas easy finishing in summer. Interesting on the second w/e in mid-April when we had 8" of snow drifting in 25 kts, vis of about 20m, and -8C 
Had he done Selection though? Might have been there for other reasons. There was an RN guy attached/posted more recently, who has now left the RN, but although he did Selection he didn't get badged, for reasons that escape me.
In the officer's mess at Stirling Lines there used to be annual photos of the mess for every year since the formation of 22. There was one line up from the eighties or so featuring an RN Lt Cdr
Just out of curiosity, but if a qualified parachutist from another service went through selection and was badged, would he be allowed to wear sabre wings, or is there a bit more to it ?
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if a qualified parachutist from another service went through selection and was badged, would he be allowed to wear sabre wings
The wings don't signify any greater para skills - the HALO course is just another course, and not undertaken by all at Hfd, and very few if any from 21/23.
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Surprisingly there was the occasional RM passing selection for Hereford, and I think I once saw an RAF Regt lad as well.
You're a bit out of date AA! Even before they created a unified UKSF selection, there were plenty of RAF reg and RM applicants to the old Desmonds selection course. A lot of RAF came via the RAF mountain rescue cadre, and most RM were narrow SBS failures but recommended for Reg (eg the bloke who fell down the cliff and broke his leg on the 80s TV show on SBS selection - he turned up later in 22).
With unified UKSF selection, there is an even wider spread of applicants, from all parts of the services. RM applicants outnumber Para now (Royal Marines is about three times bigger than 1,2,3 Para combined). SBS "selection" does not really exist any more in the strict sense of the word. Basically if you pass UKSF selection, you can either stay in the Desmonds, or if you like swimming and fancy redoing selection in a Klepper, you can attempt the SC3 course in order to join SBS. So perfectly possible for RAF Reg to end up in SBS nowadays. If you fail SC3, you have option to go back to Hereford.
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How come this thread has gone all "Airplane" ?
Ppruner Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Ppruner Elaine: When will you be back?
Ppruner Ted: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
Ppruner Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Ppruner Elaine: When will you be back?
Ppruner Ted: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
