2014 New Year Honours (merged)
 

Easier to follow list here if you are lazy but still curious
 

New Year Honours 2014: list in full - Telegraph




The list sums up the nation we now are?

2014 New Year Honours
 

From the Telegraph:


MILITARY DIVISION - ROYAL AIR FORCE
ORDER OF THE BATH
KCB
Air Marshal Stephen John Hillier, CBE, DFC. Royal Air Force.
CB
Air Vice-Marshal Lindsay John Irvine. Royal Air Force.
Air Vice-Marshal Ross Paterson, OBE. Royal Air Force.
ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
CBE
Group Capt Christina Reid Elliot. Royal Air Force, 9557V.
Air Commodore Stuart Charles Evans. Royal Air Force.
Group Capt Ian Steven Pollitt, MBE. Royal Air Force.
Group Capt Steven Roger Thornber. Royal Air Force.
OBE
Wing Cdr Philip Alan Brooker. Royal Air Force.
Wing Cdr Richard Ian Langley. Royal Air Force.
Wing Cdr Allan Paul Marshall. Royal Air Force.
Wing Cdr John Finbar Monahan, DFC. Royal Air Force.
Wing Cdr Roger Lee Morgan. Royal Air Force.
Group Capt Simon John Spence. Royal Air Force.
MBE
Sqn Ldr Alistair John Allsop. Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr John Ian Chappell. Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Paul Thomas Hamilton. Royal Air Force.
WO Brian Jeffrey. Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Alasdair Ian Craig Kirk. Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Joanna Madin. Royal Air Force.
WO Barry Anthony McEvoy. Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Christopher Melville. Robert Royal Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Peter Mockeridge. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training).
WO David Mark Palfreman. Royal Air Force.
Flt Lt Philip John Powell. Royal Air Force.
Flt Lt Walter Dewar Sutherland. Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
Sqn Ldr Angela Unsworth. Royal Air Force.

Damn, missed me again! :{

Good to see Steve Hillier, Lindsay Irvine and Chrissie Elliott on the list (although Chrissie is now a 1-star I believe?). All fantastic air-rankers IMHO.

Congrats to all :ok:

CPL Clott

Does it? It seems mostly filled with government servants rewarded for doing no more than the jobs they were paid to do...just as it always has been.

RAF Honours 2014
 

Royal Air Force list
RAF - New Years Honours 2014

Depressing to think all of them are younger than me..:( Dave Wilson LS+GCM. Seriously, well done to all and enjoy the day.

New Year Honours list
 

Always has been, but at least Pete Tong recognised....WTF!!

Services to night clubbing and the rave scene......:rolleyes:

I note on the RAF link it says: Order No 3 MSM, Order No 4 CAS Commendation, Order No 5 DCOMS' Commendation, etc...

What happened to Orders No 1 and 2?

iRaven

Mods - dupliclated thread material. Please can you merge? :O

Nauseating - especially with reference to those who've simply done a bit of dressing up and showing off.

No one below WO deserved an MBE or OBE, Really??

Of course not :=. The erks can be given a commendation and be grateful ;).

God forbid someone with mere stripes on their No1's (even if they have twice as many campaign medals) being allowed in the Palace!!!!

Those at the higher echelons are in a position to be noticed for acts worthy of the award. Pleasing to see a Private Soldier from the Army recognised, more power to the elbow of whoever wrote him up. Regardless, well done all.

Forgive ...

What's one of them then ... have 22 Group opened a Bank :cool:

For those moaning about the lack of junior presence, I would ask this. What have you actively done to push for those junior to you, who you believe are worthy of such an award to get one?

I passionately believe in recognition of effort, and always take enormous pleasure in writing a congratulatory note to people I know who are recognised, because they deserve it.

Its all very well bitching about how life isn't fair, but unless you actively push for the recognition of your people, you are hardly in a position to complain that they arent rewarded. New Years resolution for all of us should be to champion the cause of our people!

Who is this "John Chappell" chap.....does he hail from Nottinghamshire? Perhaps named for the Master of the Good Ship "Speedwell"?

In my first year in command I was able to make a direct recommendation to the AOC. One of my men got the commendation - team awards were not available - and this female came in spitting feathers.

Later, when the branches on the tree drooped my recs were intercepted by my parent unit. One rec was downgraded to a Stn Cdr's commendation and the other was refused. The Stn Cdr didn't know either person and had never visit his lodger unit.

Pour encourager les autres :(

May I express my unfettered joy at the fact that the Queen's Swan Marker has been awarded a well deserved MVO, and I look forward, along with tens of thousands of others, to the Swan Upping activities this July.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/royaleventsa...wanupping.aspx

Good letter in today's Telegraph suggesting part of the problem is that the abolition of the BEM (reintroduced for civilians in 2012 but not military) has left a vacuum. In theory anyone can be written up for an MBE; in practice officers aren't doing so.