Thats the problem...with only 3 of them there is a bugger of a job finding them.....3 is ridiculous....more required....

and the comment ref limited resources beggars belief....unbelievable....once again I hang my head in shame

Si Clik,

Read your PM's. I went to Plymouth last yr and Devon today. Disappointing..... we need a/c there or a tent with all the branch trades like at Cu air day. The Amry had tanks - they drive tanks - we had a lorry???... Nuff said!!!

Sad that all my young lad talks about is how great the army display was!! And I have to agree, if I was weighing up joining the Services today as a youngster in Devon & Cornwall based on those two showings the Navy would be at the bottom. And it's our back yard!!

Rant, rant, rant.

Will you fund me to go to Devon and Royal Cornwall next yr??

I hope we're not outshone in Portsmouth for T200!!!

Does that mean that when the AAC move to a Naval Airstation they will have to wear "British Army" badges?

latest - the stovies (yes, all 12 of them) didn't like losing their left sleeve jet badge for the RN corporate blue badge cos they're all crabs now and one's nothing in the bar without a jet badge; so they whined to Big Sir on Fantasy Island and he said ok then chaps have it your way again all change and everyone gets to wear an a/c badge as well. put the big blue one on the front of the overalls opposite the new wings that also have royal navy on them.

Is there enough Velcro this time?

Well,

There's 6 months work down the drain.

All of one company, combined ethos, no inter force elitism. I think not!

I'll bring this up at the NASM!!!!!!!!!!

Si

Burpblade,

Oh dear, must have been a slow day in the crew room.

The reason that the RN element within Joint Force Harrier suggested a different approach to the (large, ungainly) RN badge was to acknowledge and accomodate the joint aspect (clue in the title) of Harrier operations. The aircraft badge in JFH is the only common piece of cloth RN and RAF pilots wear and we decided that to remove it and get a smaller RN badge elsewhere was a good compromise between corporate identity and jointery.

Do you have an alternative suggestion now that you are better informed or do you want to start another stovie rant?

Exactly Si. Pathetic isn't it?

Having lived in "Guz" for a lot of years i used to go to Navy Days and see the kit that the Snr Service operated...

The big problem for the RN is that HMS Invisible or the like will not fit up the River Exe to visit the Devon show...!!!

Maybe a bigger recruiting drive on the annual Navy Days is the way forward, or maybe for the RN recruiting teams to arrange a weeks work experience for 6th formers.

This could be spent onboard in home waters so that they get first hand experience....if this already happens sorry for re-iterating the point...

It took longer than I thought.......
 

FB11

Quelle surprise! I am honestly surprised that it took this thread 6 pages to start the "stovie" bashing - perhaps burp blade was still trying to find something interesting to say. And all that drivel about "one company" on a well frequented web site. Tw*t.

As for positive recruitment, get the RN (whether it be GR7 or FA2) to wax the school at 250ft/450kts whilst the RNPT team are there. Can't fail to get the kids interested. Relies on the premise that we can find the school admittedly but I suppose any communal building will do. Reminds me of the story about a recce mission over Sunderland........or was it Newcastle?

"Remember, everything has a pk of 1.0 if it hits you"

Well, I've recently returned to flying and no sign of my RN Logo badge!!
Was the grat issue a one off??.... so in a year or two the youngsters who were just coming through the system and are our best recruiting advert, and the ones we should be pushing out to the recruiting fairs will be as inconspicuous as apparently we have been for years??

Standing by for deluge of unwanted badges!!!!

".... so in a year or two the youngsters who were just coming through the system and are our best recruiting advert, and the ones we should be pushing out to the recruiting fairs will be as inconspicuous as apparently we have been for years??"

As a filthy student brackets second class citizen we have been told that there aren't enough badges for us. Don't think it's gonna take a couple of years!!

FB11

You just know I'm going to be picky - surely you both wear the same type of flying suits - so they'll be common pieces of cloth too. I know it doesn't add anything to the debate, just didn't want you to think you've got away from my inane drivel.

And he puts it down to Stovie bashing..????? The Entire Fleet Air Arm has to wear this monstrous badge ....the entire FAA that is except......12 Stovies. The RN Element of JFH should be ashamed of themselves.

Good thread! Havent been on here since I got fed up with the uniformed whingings of crabs, pongos and matelos collective.

Si - from the gist of your speech at the last NASM, I thought you had realised that the 9-10 year old age group needed targeting in their schools and that would be top priority?

Badges? Oh do come on, firstly I am in the Navy not the scouts, and secondly if people cant see the whopping great ROYAL NAVY on the tail of the aircraft, then they arent going to notice a small one are they!

The new fly navy stickers? Who dreamt those up - they have certainly caused some guffawing with our joint collegues, they have several offers of what the difference is!

Get the kids young, ensure the wasters at DCC(N) do their jobs properly and make sure that the press only get one chance at airing/printing RAF Culdrose etc etc, and keep the employees sweet and happy as they are the ambassadors....oh bugger, a flaw in the plan, I will get my coat!

g300 et al,

Since I now longer work where I can get a budget to buy badges
I can't help. I happen to know another order is on the way hopefully a tad larger than then first -whats a tad?

Bigtop - I have one left (with velcro) just for you!!! You may have it ...would you like it delivered?

On the schools front there is a whole heap of that going on from what I understand - helped to set up.

Anyway back to the heads & bathrooms......................

Si

Thankfully for all you fishheads I have the worlds supply of velcro out here, which means :

a) you'll have to have your stinking badges sewn straight on to your uniform

b) I'll be getting fat off the chockie hobnobs 'gifted' for sewing on all the pongos new recognition badges with velcro

c) I'll have enough velcro left to sew my big gay RAF badge onto my combats (x3)
(why Lord,why?)

bring it on!

Maybe the Cottesmore contingent of the FAA worked harder at school.... and therefore worked out a way to avoid wearing a corporate monstrosity that pingers, baggers et al, couldn't come up with themselves!!:p

+++ INCOMING- +++

But thats the point. Why would they WANT to work out a way not to wear the badges. Surely, they should be proud to wear the badges. Are you saying they are NOT proud of the badges?????

Junglies
 

Si Clik
Back in April, you mentioned a camo version. I have tried Nwd stores, but a request in Pushtu might have been more successful. Always willing to raise the FAA profile so is there a suitable reference number that the stackers might recognise pse?

I'm not saying for one second that the skates are not proud of being in the navy. Why only yesterday I was discussing with one who was looking forward to the big FAA event of the year... was it Tarantula or Tarantino night?

What I am saying has been said on a previous page: A choice between a very cool Harrier badge that shouts to the world of your acheivement.... or an advertising gimmick?

(Anyone who can't tell that a chap is in the navy from his white boater, gold bars and ridiculous sideburns, isn't worth telling via a badge! Why would said uninformed individual care?)