The BBC gets it wrong again !!!!!
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It's not only the BBC I've just had the unfortunate experience of flying with EasyJet and in their in flight magazine is an article about one of their captains having a session in a tucano which it describes as the RAF's premier fast jet trainer, all the hawk's gone then?
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Oh my God we've got a Hereford farmboy having a pop now - the unit most unlikely to adhere to dress regs. I give up!! 
The majority of guys I know from our 'special selection' bretheren wouldn't give a stuff at how they wear their beret - just how they do their job.
The majority of guys I know from our 'special selection' bretheren wouldn't give a stuff at how they wear their beret - just how they do their job.
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Chocket - didn't wear my own beret too often, as you surmise, but a Rock trying to look like a Para, who looks like a bike-riding, striped shirt wearing onion seller is a bit much to take.
God knows how long they spend in front of the mirror getting it right
God knows how long they spend in front of the mirror getting it right
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Oh dear, strange how the fact the those who like to throw themselves out of perfectly serviceable aircraft can stir the juices so much just by wearing their head gear in and unorthodox fashion.
It's not too long ago when there were techies, shineys & zobs of all trades breaking their necks to get inside a camouflage jacket, wearing chip bags or wooly hats and stable belts with aircrew boots and gloves.
Look around nearly any RAF station today and it still looks like Fred Carno's! I'll wager one or two taking the yellow and steamy here recognise themselves.
It's not too long ago when there were techies, shineys & zobs of all trades breaking their necks to get inside a camouflage jacket, wearing chip bags or wooly hats and stable belts with aircrew boots and gloves.
Look around nearly any RAF station today and it still looks like Fred Carno's! I'll wager one or two taking the yellow and steamy here recognise themselves.
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slag the BBC but don't worry about the bystander??????
have u ever tried getting the correct info out of the MoD ??
falling rocks more like getting blood out of rocks
no wonder they got it wrong
have u ever tried getting the correct info out of the MoD ??
falling rocks more like getting blood out of rocks
no wonder they got it wrong
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Rocket Chucker;
As in 'The Parachute Regiment'? They are the only 'proper paras' not a bunch of playing-at-being-ally-walt rockapes.
As for you larging it by saying the rockapes were the last british airborne unit to carry out an operational drop, you and I know the real truth and they didn't exactly advance to contact after the 'operational drop' did they?
The Parachute Regiment can look ally wearing their berets in a jaunty fashion; rockapes just look like a bunch of air cadets who have watched too many war films when they try it. We're not on about dress regs or the correct way to wear a beret. We're on about it just looking crap.
Are rocks easier to wind up than RAF coppers?
the majority of the team are 'proper paras'
As for you larging it by saying the rockapes were the last british airborne unit to carry out an operational drop, you and I know the real truth and they didn't exactly advance to contact after the 'operational drop' did they?
The Parachute Regiment can look ally wearing their berets in a jaunty fashion; rockapes just look like a bunch of air cadets who have watched too many war films when they try it. We're not on about dress regs or the correct way to wear a beret. We're on about it just looking crap.
Are rocks easier to wind up than RAF coppers?
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I think youre the one being a bit over sensitive. But I guess in your line of work, it may as well be at FL195. In fact, anything booked into the LFS would be a bit over your head. 
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What in God's name has the Lancaster Finishing School got to do with anything?
What's 'keep it it' mean?
I think the pair of you have been wearing your berets a bit on the tight side.
What's 'keep it it' mean?
I think the pair of you have been wearing your berets a bit on the tight side.
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BBC get it wrong...again....
That'll be the army sitcom where the regiment initials were RAF and they decided to wear blue uniform instead of green....
He went on to appear in a number of TV shows including Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 and army sitcom Get Some In, which also starred My Family actor Robert Lindsay.
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WG13_Dummy,
What is it with you and Air Cadets? Twice you compared the professional airmen's standard of dress to that of the Air Cadets, as though they epitomised the nadir of compliance with military dress regulations.
Air Cadets are kids who take a great deal of pride in their appearance. Some of them may need a little sharpening up in the beret wearing department, and some may need to grow a bit before the smallest woolly pulley fits properly, but they try very hard to look good.
Isn't there a more appropriate group for comparison to which you could refer, like sqn lineys or QHI's at morning prayers?
What is it with you and Air Cadets? Twice you compared the professional airmen's standard of dress to that of the Air Cadets, as though they epitomised the nadir of compliance with military dress regulations.
Air Cadets are kids who take a great deal of pride in their appearance. Some of them may need a little sharpening up in the beret wearing department, and some may need to grow a bit before the smallest woolly pulley fits properly, but they try very hard to look good.
Isn't there a more appropriate group for comparison to which you could refer, like sqn lineys or QHI's at morning prayers?
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The berets have been exagerated by distorting the pictures by resizing them WITHOUT preserving their proportions, giving them a completely squashed look like looking in a fairground "Fat Man" mirror 