I have been in the VRT since the late '80’s and I had embroidered rank slides which I had to remove followed by my name tape years later on cs95 (the only thing I was still wearing that had been issued to me in the '70’s). I decided to toe the line after too many hats-on interviews. I have now lost seven pins and at nearly £5 a knock its getting annoying. The last one went on my skill at arms course. As an FI, RCO, SAAI I am always taking off / on webbing and slings. One of the Central Training team had the black VRT in a line bellow the rank and that’s the way I am going. I will probably stick with the badges welded on when I go to Wing though!