We thought they were pinned on yesterday after looking at it, not sewed, so it isn’t a waste of badges anyway.
A similar thing happend to my sister where she was issued MTP but the sqdn didn’t have any belts and made her buy them (obviously my parents weren’t happy)
She is lucky to be issued MTP as part of joining the RAFAC is that greens aren’t really issued unless you are lucky and a belt purchase is damn slight cheaper than a whole dpm/mtp kit.Your parents should of been briefed properly by the Sqn.
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We’re no different at our unit and while we help where we can, I explain that certain things are needed that we can’t usually supply. Not had any complaints yet.
Join a sports team and you buy half your own kit…
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are you suggesting you would rather stop training, halt all courses and remove opportunities for Cadets for the sake of a piece of cloth which isn’t supplied free?
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Following on from the discussion started in the “happy” thread (You know what really makes me happy?)…
I have been to Sachsenhausen, I have seen the ovens, and I have felt the eeriness. I have visited many of the memorials and museums in and around Berlin.
From a different era, I have been to Langemarck and Tyne Cot alike and stood in awe at the scale of those places - also Ysselsteyn which is mostly WW2 - and was shocked at some of the ages on the graves.
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Now for the GMG bit:
Considering the Mash is satirical, it merely plays on much of the charged language in use by the MSM and politicians - look at how they all attempt to slur and demean each other and how political reporting, acclimatisation, and propaganda have skewed our understanding of “left” and “right”, pushing a narrative that policies and behaviours are far more extreme than they actually are - especially previously centrist or only marginally liberal ideas being “extreme leftist”.
Corbyn is painted as a communist while the Conservatives and Farage have hoovered up the likes of the BNP and Britain First. The Conservatives ran a mayoral campaign attacking the opponent’s ethnicity and have a problem with islamophobia (but let’s not mention it and focus on Labour’s antisemitism issues). Then there’s the complete and utter disdain shown towards the EU and its representatives, the “hostile environment”, demonising of immigrants, polarisation of classes with ideological and politically calculated attacks on the poor, attacks on the judiciary in the press and by politicians… these are all fairly right-wing kind of ideas. The only thing the Conservatives fell short with was where the balance fell on police numbers and they opted for austerity over control.
No, these people aren’t Nazis, and I utterly despair at the state of politics and political discourse in this country (and around the world - the USA is no different). But we have been incrementally creeping further to the right and using divide and conquer type messages, untruths, and smears straight out of their playbook for so long that we are at risk of normalising right-wing ideals and not being able to restore any degree of integrity to politics. And it’s not just us - Far Right groups are in the ascendancy in Europe and the States, too. If we don’t recognise and satirise such use of charged language, what can we do? You can’t fight fire with a water pistol.
That people get so hung up at satire, but are less vocal about the actual media and political propaganda baffles and depresses me.
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I understand and get what you mean to me the politicians, media and the like are all playing silly games to paint opponents as badly as possible and then have the audacity to complain/discuss about the lack of respect in this country.
Even the pathetic point scoring that’s going on sometimes it seems there is no point in even trying to have a decent discussion with people.
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No, you can do the “training/course” and not have a badge. I’ve done many courses and not even had a bit of paper to say I have. By doing what people are doing they are not forcing HQAC’s hand to actually ensure they supply things from day one, not put something in place like a badge scheme as they did and make some really poor excuse as to why they can’t supply the badges, but then hey presto they are available to buy through a third party. Similarly rank slides, bar initial set.
This badge scheme like so much emanating from our national HQ, smacks of something that was rushed, with the message squadrons have to fill the funding gap. There is an old adage about not doing something you can’t afford, something or to do something you don’t do it that HQAC might need to think about, the next time they get all pie in the sky.
Just because you don’t have a badge doesn’t mean you don’t know the information and or ability to impart that knowledge.
Politicians having been like that since time immemorial.
but i am not sure how you are forcing the HQAC hand by running the courses anyway.
the BA pilots who went on strike this week stopped turning up entirely in protest.
they didn’t fly the aircraft anyway just with no passengers.
although pleased to hear Cadets are being trained I can’t see how there is much of a protest if the known delays for badges is accepted…
or are you simply ignoring the option to purchase them and accept the wait for badges…?
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But running the courses and buying the badges doesn’t help anyone other than rip-off’s profit margins at the cadet’s or CWCs expense and HQAC are under no compulsion to provide, although they could buy them from rip-off and supply them to squadrons, given that somehow rip-off are better at getting these things made, than the organisation they are meant for.
CCFs that just make up dress regs (e.g. great coats and/or pace sticks/swords for cadets or adult staff refusing to wear VRT/RAFAC identifiers on their No1s and 5s.)
It gives the rest of us a bad name and makes it harder when we try to enforce dress regs and they then speak to friends in other contingents.
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Someone been on a certain Facebook group?
I’m guessing you’ve been I’ve been air cadet too long… I did comment on that and the response was basically I’m ccf and I’m allowed
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I know his Contingent Commander. One of those with time served Wing Commander who relies heavily on “tradition” to get away with everything
a what now?
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I dont seen the word tradition mentioned in Ap1358C
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In my world. these people would be shot.
Simples.
In the CCF a Contingent Commander is (usually) a Major or equivalent (Sqn Ldr). But after, IIRC, 20 years commissioned service, including 10 as a Contingent Commander JSP 313 allows promotion to Lt Col or equivalent.
Although still in the JSP HQAC are not approving them anymore, as I had to listen to last week when my Contingent Commander got in to find the letter saying his promotion was rejected. He was not a happy bunny.
