New badge
 

Do you think they'll be allowed to wear it on their jumpers too?

https://www.raf.mod.uk/community/new...-branch-badge/

Stand by for incoming from BEagle!:hmm:

Jack

The people with a dartboard marked out with postings destinations, and a slack handful of arrows, each with a name on it?

The Met Office has one, with a large number of iterations of title/ corporate image.

To the best of my fuddled recollection, in just 41 years of my service:

M.O. 10
Met. O. 10
Manning [whoops!]
Staffing
Personnel
Human Resources

and, for all I know now, another one or two.

Yes, yes, yes, langleybaston - but will you weather-guessers PLEASE sort out this wretched cold weather!

I'm not familiar with the Personnel Branch - but perhaps something which indicates provision of comfort, uplift and general support* for service personnel might be appropriate?

Actually, if they can come up with a 'brand identitty', then the best of luck to them!


*TIP - try a google image search for this!

Good suggestion Beags!
It could also include the musicians as I read it following your tip:

"The guide for a more comfortable, uplifted and neater bust. ... 80% of all support in a bra comes from the band that goes round your back"

Something depicting a square peg and a round hole, emblazoned with the motto - 'Clausi in feriis'

A badge for Scribblies?

Oh dear gods, whatever next, a blanket badge for Stackers?


I have a suggestion, how about a Penguin?

Do they still make them?

Perhaps a crossed pen and axe?

How about suspenders?

Que BEagle again.

An axe is useful, how about 'closed for staff training' badge or a very small stable belt?

That'd cover off the diversity bit, with some sort of rainbow ribbon obviously....

A fist with one raised finger?

Seriously though, where is this badge going to be displayed or worn?

If on uniform then everyone will want one (Sooties, plumbers, loggies, fairies, etc).

Then cost, what budget? I wonder how far up money tree is the sponsor?

BEagle ...

May I suggest that the 'article' you could also possibly allude to has the 'Cricket Box' mod (made by Litesome) ... As I suspect, as in the commercial world, most people feel they've been kicked in the nether regions whenever dealing with 'Human Remains' (sorry Human Resources).

And if so the Motto could be ... 'Truss Us' :}

This could be a contender graphic :E

http://zmainvestments.com/wp-content.../coin-flip.jpg

But I refrain from suggesting a Motto ...

As a former scribbly, this proposal leaves me wholly underwhelmed

Motto:

"in triplicata placet"

CG

Hmmm, must be a handbrake badge with a broken wing! :ok:

Brilliant ............. and there was me thinking it was 1st April.

As for the weather, I abdicated all responsibility not when I left the Met. Office, but when I joined.

Per Astra ad Ardua :rolleyes:

Please leave the badges to those at the pointy end, and spend the money on something useful instead.

I always thought that the role of we scribblies was to do what we could to make the lives of drivers, geographical consultants and the like, as well as those of us in the supporting cast, as free as possible from unnecessary faff. To earn the Queen's shilling whilst doing so was reward in itself.

Deskex76.

Sadly, in my experience, you would appear to be in the minority amongst your brethren. But let's not go there.

BV

Nothing's changed there then BV.

Ummm ... is this "Badge" what one would normally call a Unit Shield or similar term?

Supporters
 

The purpose of the RAF is to fly and to fight; The purpose of those who do not fly or fight is to assist those who do. The better kind of supporters understood this and worked at it, sadly many did not

Deskex76,

Don't worry about the cost. By the time a committee have sorted this out, the RAF will only be of the size that requires half a dozen, and that will include a couple of spares.

How about writing on their rank badges like TCW and TSW? They could have BLUNT on theirs? :E

Tinribs

The purpose of the RAF is to fly and to fight; The purpose of those who do not fly or fight is to assist those who do.

So, basically, the RAF consists of the 'winged master race'. Other wearers of the light blue are just 'assistants'.

Hmm

This may well degenerate into another "Caption Competition" - only funnier.

To get the ball rolling, how about Wingless Wonder ? (to go with a Badge of a quill, a blindfold and a Dodo)

D.

A brass badge worn on the left cuff saying QWERTY

To save expending much needed budget resources, they will be required to make their own badges in their own time! :eek:

Just leave it blank, like the template.

We're all 'assistants' on delivering the airborne effect on the desired target. Some have a bigger role to play than others, but we're all part of the team that delivers that 'effect'.

Despite my suggested 'BLUNT' badge, I do think a badge of trade/branch is a good idea. Being able to walk into a room and at a glance have a reasonable idea of someone's specialisation is a good thing. That's why the WSO/WSOp flying badge was such a daft idea...:yuk: Originally, it was planned to have a badge to distinguish between a Nav and a Fast Jet Weapons System Operator - it went wrong when non-FJ types started to get involved. Personnally, I would have revived the RO (RADAR Observer) brevet for the FJ types.

http://www.rafweb.org/Uniform_Images/radio_obs.jpg

Anyway, I believe there should be a distinguishing insignia for all branches/trades...

LJ

Typical of official announcements; only released 26 days late for an April Fool's Day joke. Perhaps a circular orange badge: in the RAAF they're known as JAFAs - Just Another F...ing Adminer.

The RCAF have a badge for everyone:

Canadian Forces - Air Force - Air Trade Badges

The Resource Management Support Clerk is a feather in an ink pot:

http://va3kgb.ve3kbr.com/graphics/mi...pportclerk.png

CPL Clott

http://va3kgb.ve3kbr.com/graphics/mi...ativeclerk.png

http://va3kgb.ve3kbr.com/graphics/mi...nanceclerk.png

http://va3kgb.ve3kbr.com/graphics/mi...nistration.png

Spot on, Leon. You hit the operative word, TEAM.

Save money by adopting an anchor... Huge inanimate weight that impedes progress. We could always differentiate it by putting a "W" in front of it...

With the current aircrew retention issue it may be worth issuing them a Future Pilot sticker rather than waste time designing a new badge!

I think the question should be...do Scribblies want to be easily identifiable out of their office (of which they're seldom 'in').

Deskex - well said, more pointedly, to oil wheels, not put grit in them