Bos/Kos gongs no longer allowed to be worn??
Naval GSM
how cross some of us in dark blue were when the Naval GSM 1915 was superseded by the GSM 1962
TELIC Medal
My TELIC medal is a real pain compared to the others - it came out of the box quite tarnished and I've never been able to get it looking truly spanking. Any one else had the same problem? I'm reluctant to take wire wool to the thing ...
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Irate contributors. Do you really think the tailors are little powercrazed Napoleons and trying to subvert the Forces? No - they tend to be honest civilian tradesmen and women trying to do their best and keep their customers dressed correctly. They are not messing with your uniforms for s**ts and giggles. They appear to be following a badly-worded document provided for them. How about assisting with understanding rather than the 'oy, stitch, I know best, do it' internet hardmen lines you trot out here? I have worked with good and bad tailors - I've worked with good and bad in every RAF Branch and Trade too. Get over yourselves and see people away from the cockpit as people.
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Aye, tailors only work iaw documentation handed to them by Supply, who in turn get the documents from someone who is supposed to know about these things and gets paid a pretty penny for the privilege.
If tailors were to start making up their own dress regulations then they wouldn't get paid for the work, nor for correcting their mistake. This is why you are supposed to have a supply trade SNCO who is familiar with current dress regs at hand in order to sign-off work being return after tailoring as correct, which in-turns authorises payment for said tailoring.
Whether this happens in all (or any) Clothing Stores these days is another matter, I can only go on what happened many years ago when I ran Clothing Stores.
I'll go now though, feeling sleepy after discussing matters that I have tried to purge from my mind......
If tailors were to start making up their own dress regulations then they wouldn't get paid for the work, nor for correcting their mistake. This is why you are supposed to have a supply trade SNCO who is familiar with current dress regs at hand in order to sign-off work being return after tailoring as correct, which in-turns authorises payment for said tailoring.
Whether this happens in all (or any) Clothing Stores these days is another matter, I can only go on what happened many years ago when I ran Clothing Stores.
I'll go now though, feeling sleepy after discussing matters that I have tried to purge from my mind......
