FAA Pilot Wings for Everyone

[asdaasbo]

asdassbo,
"Personally I like the idea but not using wings as a first opinion it brings to mind is what a c@*k"

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Where you drunk when you wrote that? Do you mean option or opinion? Without wishing to sound like ORCA....re-scrub.

If you want to voice a option/opinion, you will have far more credibility if you speak in a language we can at least understand.

Shippers i suggest you read the original post. You would retain far more credibility if when quoting someone you didn't change the words used in the quote. If you need some help understanding the gist of what i was saying then it merely strengthens the point i was making.

Besides the post being a little tongue in cheek, i have utmost respect for Naval pilots but believe that anyone attempting to imitate a pilot by wearing wings would look a complete c#@k.

[TheWizard]

What identifies us as RN is our uniform

Irrespective of which variety is being worn!

[orca]

Without wanting to sound like orca:

Comma.

Just saying.

[bast0n]

Shippers

Did you not mean:-

?

[vecvechookattack]

No...thats

Truck;Truck;Truck

[bast0n]

So very lorry - I thought they were commers..........

[Union Jack]

So very lorry - I thought they were commers..........

In my capacity as a fully paid-up member of the Apostrophe Police (Plain Clothes Branch), and with a burning desire to bring this thread back on track (not) I feel that I should point out that three "Commers" equal one "Colon", which just about sums up the matter of the so-called new "badge", namely that it culminates in a load of a***e!

Jack

[bast0n]

You and your jack

I like the idea of getting back on track. Do we know if any serving chaps have had any chance of commenting on the esteemed Admirals views on badges?

I firmly believe that the FAA is and was held together by the amazing maintainers that we enjoyed/enjoy, and without whom nothing would have got off the ground. They know they are the best. Do they need a special badge?

Come on chaps speak up.

I like also the idea that you can teach a monkey to fly, but have you ever seen one mend a puncture. I have met several monkeys that you could not train to do either. Too much time on the sports field on Wednesdays.........

[orca]

There's a small, but significant, chance that some of the posters on the last five pages have actually been serving. If we assume that to be the case, and note the complete lack of anyone who thinks it's a good idea, you will arrive at a snapshot of the opinion of those still serving. This does rely on the fact that those who inhabit sites such as this represent the rest of society. Which we probably don't!

I'm not convinced that the maintainers hold the FAA together, but they're a vital piece of the jigsaw held together by something else. Masking tape probably.

[bast0n]

Oh Stripey Whale

Do you know if there has been any official consultation with the lads on this one, or has 2SL just had a bad dream and fired if off as a good retention idea?

[Pontius]

If I looked that old I would have retired.

I have retired and I don't look that old

That's 'cos you're an ex-Crab and, therefore, so used to loafing around hotels, collecting allowances and turning down duties on the basis of 'crew rest' it's small wonder you look youthful and cherubic.

It's one thing having the Chosen Ones (FAA) extracting the Michael from the Fisheads, quite another from the hoi poloi of the Junior Service .

PS: I think you should all get ovvies and stick as many badges, zaps and pins onto them as possible. You won't look like knobs, honestly. Just look at the colonials across the Pond; they're really cool with their badges and 'I've visited the Bridge' medals.

XXX

WAFU Retired (and look like ****e).

edited to add: and jealous because I didn't get hotels, allowances or crew rest..........until the afterlife that is.

[bast0n]

Pontious

I like it!

Any chance of posting a picture of you looking as you do now after a lifetime without the imprest bag at your side?

You do and I will............

[minigundiplomat]

WAFU Retired

An unnecessary comment. With such an inferiority complex there was never any doubt. RAF wouldnt take you eh? Must have been in good company in the FAA.

[teeteringhead]

the hoi poloi of the Junior Service

... one hates to be pedantic (no ... actually one rather enjoys it) but hoi poloi - more correctly οί πολλοί - already includes the definite article οί so doesn't require "the"......

..... and there's never been much in the way of hotels and allowances in the SH Force......

[asdaasbo]

As a current maintainer i have just conducted a straw poll amongst my peers and too a man all agreed it to be a complete waste of time. Let the pilots keep their wings, it identifies them as pilots. The FAA already have a branch badge, a cute little plane. If maintainers were to have a badge why not a crossed GS screwdriver and hammer for the grubbers and a tea cup and uckers board for the avionic types.

This whole idea is a complete farse and is just a method of someone trying to get noticed by the hierarchy.

I know lets change the uniforn to a nice salmon colour to reflect the modern pink and fluffy force.

[timex]

New badge for the maintainers...An Uckers board?

[bast0n]

Minigun etc

An unnecessary comment. With such an inferiority complex there was never any doubt. RAF wouldnt take you eh? Must have been in good company in the FAA.

I expect as you grow up you will learn to distinguish the difference between banter and insult.

As a gesture of friendship and inter service cooperation I enclose some apostrophes for your future posts.''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''':

[minigundiplomat]

Apostrophe's graciously accepted.

[orca]

MGD - Very clever shipmate, BZ.

Bast0n,

My sources suggest that we are actually in the period of consultancy, so the thread's originator is perhaps a little hasty to call it a decree.

For the same reason he will probably be shot, if we can work out who he might be. Hopefully he has disguised his whereabouts sufficiently. For exactly the same reason my profile says 'Somerset' when actually I work in the outer office of a two star recently caught shoplifting.

Anyway, the good news is that the troops will have their say, but the bad news is that it will be ignored. The whole lot of us will be wandering around with half-mackerels, uckers boards and err, dolphins.

The crabs have reacted by issuing everyone with a golden punctuation mark!

[asdaasbo]

Hope its a golden question mark ????????????