Shall we get back to talking about badges, or I can lock the thread if it has run its course.
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Adult Sgt first solo at a VGSā¦. Can only assume the award of cadet wings is symbolic / an in-joke?
I mean, staff arenāt actually wearing cadet badges are they??
Are we not meant to?
Are we not meant to wear a cadet flying badgeā¦.?
Donāt know about you, but I donāt find myself with a burning desire to wear my marksman badge, or DofE gold from when I was a cadetā¦. Not sure why wearing a Cadet badge for any subject (flying included), is something that should be done / is permitted through the regs.
Its just for a photo. Fairly obviously.
Yes, obviously, because nobody in our organisation would freestyle the rules would theyā¦.
It was perhaps the only badge they had for the photo call. Iām sure he wouldnāt wear it. Heās not a cadet is he?
IIRC VGS staff have to do the silver and gold cadet syllabus before instructor training. So I guess heās technically earned the wings even if heāll never wear them.
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Yes VGS staff do the cadet syllabus as there training and get the badges but donāt wear them as such but Iāve seems some wearing them on their flying suite name patches
Likewise. Might be the most Chad valley thing Iāve ever seen.
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Maybe letās not publicly shame other volunteers? Especially if they arenāt here to defend themselves?
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Indeed.
Also, they are being rewarded for starting their career in this org to support cadets and cfavs.
Im all for slating losers and the biffs, but this chap in my big book of nupties doesnt seem to fit.
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My old OC was ex Regiment.
He couldnāt wear mudguards or embroidered rank slides, but was ordered to wear his parachute wings by OC Wing as he had qualified for them.
Yup fair1, done.
Iāve nothing against the chap in the picture, I just think itās a slippery slide. Iāve seen staff wearing cadet wings on their jumpers around the Corps, and itās simply daft.
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Depends what rank he was in the Regt
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My concern isnāt so much the CFAVs, but the positioning of the new wings on cadet uniform.
To the outsider, the wings look like RAF wings and are worn on the chest. The Nav Scholarship half wing is almost identical to RAF rear crew brevets.
Would it not be better for the wings to be worn on the shoulder patch to differentiate ?
That was the whole point of them
Yet we go to great lengths to differentiate cadets from regulars.
Surely the fact thereās spotty teenagers wearing Flight Sergeant rankslides makes it pretty clear theyāre not regulars.
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