It’s the same one that cadets wear now (and that SIs can choose to wear). That’s the change — it used to be different: with officers wearing the RAF TRF (because they were commissioned into the RAFVR), whilst WOs and SNCOs wore a weird diagonal RAF TRF with black embroidery on it that you couldn’t see.
Still looks better than our phallic falcon …
Was designed right here on ACC with actual consultation, of course they don’t want to keep it.
I can only think that eveyone on the approvals team must have seen ‘it’ before approving the badge and that it must have been designed with ‘malice aforethought’!
It’s the same falcon: you just can’t see it in black against dark blue and red backgrounds.
Known in the wild as the Phallcon
That’s rather more subtle than Dickie Bird!
Why are we refered to as Adult? What else would staff be? Schools don’t have Adult Teachers.
To be honest, I think you’re asking the wrong question there. ‘Adult’ is there as a balance to ‘cadet’, but why are the only identifiers that mention ‘staff’ (and before that, ‘instructor’) worn by cadets?
Are C.I rank slides still to be worn with MTP anymore?
has the policy on CIs in MTP not changed back to
Absolutely not
or was that just my wing?
If it is allowed then yes the CI slide would be advised but I don’t know if it’s mandatory
No carrying weapons in civvies, so definitely relevant to fieldcraft.
They aren’t technically rank slides, as CI isn’t a rank.
yes it is for fieldcraft i am referring to, i wasn’t sure is it still allowed to be worn officially or not? Or are different wings doing different things?
There’s an MSBN on this:
Interestingly, the MSBN makes no mention of CI slides or any other identifiers (such as the RAFAC TRF).
It also states that, “No form of ‘uniform’ headdress is to be worn, a soft DPM/MTP hat or suitable climatic headwear may be worn in the field”. I’ve read elsewhere (and seen) that for road marching, CIs wear the RAF beret with an ATC cap badge (I’m not aware of what CCF(RAF) CIs would wear). Shouldn’t this kind of thing be more joined up with a single cohesive policy (ideally spelt out clearly in ACP 1358)?
Road Marching has always been rogue, we and the parent service were still wearing 2C shirts with lightweight trousers in the early-mid 2000’s.
Ah. But we couldn’t possibly update the existing document while it’s being re-written. For… reasons.