New rank slides: when?

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Dose anyone know when under 18 cadets will start to get there new Rnaks slides (Also are cadets getting general rank slides)

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The new yellow-band ā€œStaff Cadetā€ slides for O18 are starting to come through - all staff cadets at my squadron have them.

Weā€™ve even got a couple of the flight staff cadet variety as well.

Yes. IIRC this one isnā€™t for a while yet, though (I forget where I read this).

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Itā€™s only the O18 rank slides that changed. Under 18 staying the same

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Have the blue ones been binned off?

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Ahhh yeah, being the same colour as FSC cadets I completely disregarded them!

But the answer is not a clue.

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So they havenā€™t been binned off? Am super confused now :joy::sweat_smile:

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But but but youā€™re the guy! The uniform guy! The guy that deals with all the regs for uniform.

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Not the logistics of it though!

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How Alex feels 24/7 on here

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the blue stripe cadet ones you are referring to will be being produced from september this year and that start to go out a bit after that

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I know this plan had been in for a while and there no changing it but anyone in RAFAC think about it just costing more when they was no issue with the ones currently in use :thinking:

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Thereā€™s some argument as to safeguarding, because all other cadet forces clearly denote their rank slides with ā€˜CADETā€™

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My argument has always been that there is no stage in a cadets career where they could be mistaken for an Adult member of the RAF or a CFAV, minor exception when I met this 17yo Viking cadet Cpl who looked about 30

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I suppose itā€™s a really clear indicator that is consistently worn in all modes of uniform, and therefore that makes it a good idea.

Iā€™d have simplified it a bit so it doesnā€™t invite extra questions, but a bit olā€™ ā€œAIR CADETā€ would make it incredibly clear to everyone.

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I guess so :thinking:

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Iā€™ve recently seen SM images of a FSC sgt with a beard. The combination of the eagles above his stripes and the beard make him easily mistakable for NCA in phase 2 training.

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Same Iā€™ve seen that too looks a bit off maybe just got to get use to it :joy:

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an issue only created by these Rank changes

under the old system he would have worn Sgt

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Yes, but RAFP also wear cpl rank straight out of phase 2 training: so there are also under 20-year-old regular cpls who cadets could also readily be mistaken for.

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Wellā€¦ The RAF Police wear a white hat and have a different style of rank slide so not really :joy:

But I do understand weā€™re your coming from and to be honest I think itā€™sore of it being change and people donā€™t like change.