A belt can be a badge, for example PJHQ / JFC and DHU stable belts, RAF Regt / RAFP stable belt buckles, etc.
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Chains that a Mayor wears are not badges but chains. You’re just arguing semantics at this…
Maybe you’ve got the wrong end of the proverbial stick - the white belt shows they’re a DI. The stick is a tool (yes one that looks cool and a lot of people use it as showing they’re the DI but it’s a tool nonetheless).
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I think the white belt for DIs is closer to equivalent of a hi vis tabard as it easily identifies them when marshalling parade when everyone else is very similar looking uniform.
The white belt stands out at distance.
Also you wouldn’t wear the a hi vis jacket for just small event practising when you are clearly identifiable so why wear a white belt when you’re teaching drill for 20minutes to four cadets?
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Because
They
Can.
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Is not a Mayoral chain a symbol of the office of Mayor, worn by the person holding that office.
Shiny Pilot Officer in No1s on the weekly brief.
How do us clearly lesser mortals (still officers) get our hands on them? it seems to be one of those mysteries that nobody wants to tell!
Ask your parent stations.
The pace stick is a badge of office for the WWO, no one else.
It’s a qualification marker, similar to what we do for cadets with Blue DofE, except the belt & stick is only to be used when teaching.
Sort of like QAICs wearing a flying suit when doing QAICy stuff! Again, no problem here!
I struggle to understand how wearing a flying suit enhances the principles of flight theory lessons
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To give a very tenuous argument (cause I don’t really see it either) it can focus the mindset & culture of a topic, using the psychology to aid the teaching environment.
I used to insist that air recce be taught with cadets wearing MTP to emphasis it as military skill & need, (often using satellite imagery) and move it away from “plane spotters monthly”
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I was once asked to deliver a series of lessons on Arms Drill for CCF(RAF) cadets in readiness for some biannual parade or other. An ATC WO (non-arms drill trained) was in attendance and was quick to remind me that as an officer, I wasn’t authorised to teach drill and I certainly wasn’t qualified to teach Arms drill.
He was swiftly reminded that I was shouldering arms when he was growing arms and in Baghdad when he was in his dad’s bag.
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Was he asked to investigate the idea of procreation and travel with the complimentary taxidermists gift voucher.
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He wasn’t. It’s fair to say that he had a bit chuckle and said: ‘yeah, ok, point taken’.
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I can imagine a certain RWO acting like that. He used to help at our CCF when a WWO and the army CTT found him an endless source of amusement. Acted like he was a stereotypical RAF WO from national service comedies.
Except he wouldn’t have taken the point.
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There were 16 cadets who undertook SSDIC this year and not all passed. An incredibly small number that doesn’t even match up to the two recent Regional courses run this year. RAFAC CFAV should see these people as an asset at all levels. They’ve met the standards required for adults and should be trusted to deliver the same standards of drill instruction as a result.
As an organisation we have some incredibly overprotective and backwards thinking individuals who need to get with the programme. What, realistically, is the difference between an 18/19 year old cadet and a 20 year old CFAV Sgt in terms of ability to complete SSDIC and then instruct drill? Essentially nothing. There will be cadets who completed that course that can do it better than CFAV and as adult staff we should be open to appropriate coaching from these cadets who are now SME’s.
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So only one for every two wings on average…
…not as if we’ll be overrun by arrogant Cdt Dls
(On the basis they become arrogant havi g completed the course)
Not forgetting of course not all 16 passed so even fewer in the parishes to consider
Can Cadets attend the Regional Courses? I would hope so but you never know.
Are you new here, you should recognise that empires are, and need to be, built and protected.
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