The thunderbird jacket is definitely best worn fully zipped up. I’ll wear the GPJ unzipped, as the uniform underneath looks significantly better than the jacket.
It was and the sharper eyed will have noticed the US NSN on the label.
And the answer is . . . Green Frog will sell them to you in you email.
Sqn id badges are sold in batches of 70 @50p per badge +£3.95 p+p
so 70 badges would cost £38.95p
I usually order them from WHQ, not sure if that’s still the case in every region with the recent changes.
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That’s not been the case nationally for years. There’s no national contract to supply those badges.
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To add the context, squadrons weren’t forwarding the receipt confirmations to HQAC, so HQAC wasn’t paying the bill.
At this point it was decided to just place the responsibility onto squadrons for ordering and paying. It’s possible that a WHQ may have taken that on and continued to support the supply…
ETA history:
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The previous system was terrible, but just punting the cost onto squadrons and the profit the Green Frog (as opposed to the historic supplier) wasn’t the finest hour of Dawns tenure.
There were much better work around but hey giving everything to Green Frog was her motto.
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Shares in the company… or at least the duty rumour was someone at HQAC had this.
Keep meaning to ask Dave at Greenfrog.
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I don’t think that’s the sort of claim that should be made without proof.
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Maybe.
But having heard it direct from CS, at various National events i supported previously7. One does tend to start thinking something akin has substance.
Also worth paying attention to their quality though.
Some time ago we received a delivery of unit identifiers from them. Half of them had the 2nd and 3rd number mixed up and were unusable, as that squadron didn’t exist.
Example of what I mean; if our unit was 1234 sqn, half of the badges read 1324.
Green Frog or the old supplier in NI?
There is an FOI process to confirm it 
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Hi Hive mind.
I’m looking to purchase some projectors that can be used in the classroom environment, but also able to be used in the field (Adventure Training Camp, Fieldcraft, Etc) for briefings/additional training.
Would need to be battery powered, and suitably cadet-proof for use in deployed areas.
Battery use is so it can be used where they may not be a generator / powered infrastructure.
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I would invest in remote batteries and not special projectors.
More technology about and can be used for more universal things like charging radio banks or running radio masts etc.
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Another angle to look at here could be to get a ‘normal’ mains posted projector, and then get something similar to a Jackery.
Or would be way more flexible, allowing the use of laptop charging, tablet charging and lighting etc
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Beat me to it!
As an idea the SAR team that I volunteer for use a big battery in the back of our Incident Command Unit to run computers, screens, radios and all sorts from one place making it much easier to exist in a remote environment.
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Rather than projectors I’d be inclined to look at things like the LG StanbyME GO but I imagine you want something capable of a bigger screen?
A custom 12v lipo with inverter setup works well if built into a vehicle, but honestly these battery stations by the likes of Anker/Jackery/UGreen/EcoFlow are getting really good that it’s almost not worth the effort of a custom setup!
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