So excited I can't wait....
 

...for my 3 new 15cm by 3cm patches emblazoned with "Royal Air Force" that I can sew to my CS95 (not the outer jacket mind you) and that will help those who recognise neither my beret badge nor my distinctive rank to realise that I am in the Royal Air Force!!!!!!!!:D

It is great to know that we can still find money for these types of initiative during a time of cutbacks! Makes me proud to serve! And I hope the chap who thought up this gets one of the new £1000 chairs as a reward!!!!:D :D :D :D :D

Shameless copying of our new velcro backed ROYAL NAVY embroidered badges......

The Royal Marines have had shoulder flashes for years, presumably so people didn't mistake them for pongos....

Full Command?
 

Meanwhile, those RAF personnel in the JHC are already wearing JHC formation badges - which take precedence, as you're only allowed to wear one badge plus your UJs? Should I advertise my 'full command' or embrace jointery? Either way, I'll probably p1$$ someone off!

Apparently these ones go over the right breast - isn't that chest in these PC days?

.....maybe it's for ease of identification during Op Fresco 2??...

Chaps - I am on the very outer edges of the Empire here - the mail ship is slow and the telegraph is playing up. Any good links for this sort of guff?
Heard stories (again) about aircrew getting lovely little wingy things to put on shirts too. Save all that awful summer sweating at Brize I guess. Please add to rumours with anything wilder than current truth (if possible).

Ta.

May I ask, whatever happened to looking at rank tabs?

Great, more rubbish to stitch on....:}

I thought it was only the RAF Regiment and Plod who wore little labels so that other people could lead them back to where they worked after they'd forgotten after lunch?

Ah - but the Rocks know effing well that it's only a joke. Some of the RAF's finest, they are. Honest - and some of the most humorous if GDT/ODT/CCS at the covert WestOxonian aerodrome was anything to judge by.

Save LOADS of cash!!!
 

Hey, here's an idea - let's save on employing tailors by making every badge metal with a pin on it and, when presented, the RAF can hammer the things into your chest - who said we don't learn from other nations.......!!!!! Anyone for a GEMS????

Oh those RAF Regiment chappies are so tough! Glad I never faced one down in Lincoln........Oh! Too late!:E
Saved my Plastic Surgeon a Fortune though!

Maybe they should issue a badge to go on yer hat....hmm that'd never catch on would it?

Or how about a different coloured uniform. One understands that there is a load of cloth left redundant from the Tsar's proposed palace guard? No?

Well, maybe a neat eagle badge on each shoulder? Nah, too stupid.

Let's go for something that 90+% of the world can't read/understand. Perfect.

Under the new non-swearing edict, one can only remark "Caber Throwers".

In the good old days we had to buy our "regulation" black plastic name tabs in Changi Village, which seemed a good idea at the time because it was easy to forgot who we were!

Great I'll be able to put one on the new RAF rucksack they are going to provide!!! What about something useful like a long coat to keep my legs dry during the Summer?:{

Excellent point, given our new-found expeditionary role!

Of course not forgetting the rank slides with Royal Air Farce written on them. Apparently the powers that be conducted a survey and found that the RAF were not recognised by many people as the uniforms looked too much like those of the RAC and ambulance service. At last I will be able to remember who I am supposed to be working for .... that has been bugging me for years!:uhoh:

And I so hope that everyone is getting excited by the new RAF DZ patch that will be worn on the right arm, along with your first aid, knot tying and helping-old-ladies-across-the-road badges. Of course these are only supposed to be velcroed on as you get rid of them once you have jumped and correctly formed up to preven the enemy knowing which unit is which. However, I'm sure velcro is not condusive to good order and discipline. But the burning question on my mind is, if they give me a DZ flash, are they expecting me to jump out of a plane???????

Is there something I have missed whilst I was on leave????:\

That said, if the powers that be's intention was to make a more united air farce, then it's worked, but not in the way they expected. I saw the original letter, signed off by someone known only as 'Sir' and all the replies and forwarded messages were united in their condemnation of this stupid idea.

And part of the previous post reminds me.....

Once when I was involved with Int & Sy for the RAF in Norn Iron, I had an apopleptic 'phone call from the 1* COS at Lisburn saying (shouting) with disbelief that an airman in uniform had been seen in a Shoopping Centre near Lisburn (unsurprisingly, uniform in puiblic the ultimnate no no).

Fortunately, the brig goes on, covert units were nearby and were able to "snatch" said airman and rush him to safety. Best I similarly rush to Lisburn to deal with him.

What me.... deal with an initially very frightened and subsequently extremely hacked off RAC man........:ok:

I was once involved in a recruitment drive at a large school with a fellow Flt Lt. We were approached by an elderly lady who chatted to us about this and that for a few minutes then she patted my colleague on the arm and said, "Well I must be off dear, I hope you don't get too many casualties today"