And CI’s having ‘uniform’ as an issue item rather than private purchase.
It is an issue item in most places. If your wing is making it private purchase then you should be having words.
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I do sympathise though. We had a CI who would turn up to do teach lessons in board shorts and t-shirt when the cadets were in blues, I used to try and at least be in an equivalent state of dress to the kids when I was one.
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Seen someone with the RAF identity patch in MTP a couple of months ago.
I’ve seen someone with the Union Jack on the right blanking plate (incorrectly oriented). We’ve both seen people who are incorrectly dressed, which is isn’t as uncommon as one would like to think.
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We ordered CI polos and jumpers for all our CI’s recently - they arrived within a few weeks.
Is there an order form for those?
I wish they weren’t CI polo shirts / sweatshirts but just had the RAFAC logo without the embroidered ‘Civilian Instructor’. We give all our newbies this kit which is awesome but the kit becomes completely redundant as soon as they decide to step into a uniform.
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It’s a RAFAC Form Logs Sup 5 - Corporate Clothing Demand Sheet
I have it as an email attachment in word - which I can’t upload on here.
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I still have CS95… if they want me to wear MTP, then they can issue it to me !!
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It was still required on MTP CS95 shirts, just not MTP PCS shirts.
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Inc barrack shirts?
No - if you have the original MTP CS95 shirt you shoukd have had the RAF patch on it. If you have the new barrack shirt you shouldn’t. The way you tell is the CS95 shirt has the button hole on the collar - the barrack shirt doesn’t
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Interesting thing I’ve found - so if you’re a CCF ‘adult’, you are now no longer identifiable with your school, because the CCF purple flash goes on the left patch!
The way it has been for the ATC for a very long time. Some ATC squadrons many years ago privately produced their own TRFs, but these were all banned about a decade or so ago.
These days, there’s no way to identify an ATC CFAV as being ATC rather than generic RAFAC.
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Yes but it’s still a major change for CCF!
And you are right, the only way of identifying an ATC instructor from a CCF one is now through a tiny patch!
This replaces the purple CCF badge though, not any school specific one.
Edit. My bad, hadn’t seen the change of moving that over and losing the school one. Wasn’t in the official comms
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The initial comms I got was that this was a straight swap purple for penis.
Not that we then had to take off the school patch on the left and replace it with the purple one. But looking in the ACP that seems to be the case.
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Very strange indeed!
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We are talking about a RAF uniform here, not a school one.
My No. 3 dress uniform doesn’t have anything to identify my sqn, wg, station, profession, etc. Like many (but not all) I just have the RAF TRF on the right and a Union Jack on the left. It’s only really the more tactical formed units or EAWs that have additional identifiers.