Let’s just go off topic - damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
I’ve got a lovely Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot in the glass tonight, from Argentina.
Here I am just drinking cans of 1664 watching a NASA stream. #classy
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Sir’s, Ma’am’s
ARRRGGGGH!
People who push out pointless surveys, (hoping for a promotion/commendation) when they already know the problem and solution, but never do anything about it apart from stall for time.
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I have been guilty of this.
I’d disagree with this in part. Survey’s when properly designed,used and analysed, allow for the person to collect evidence which can be invaluable. Making changes or decisions based on gut feelings etc without evidence is in many cases not advised. Evidence based practice is something I feel we need more of in this organisation.
What I do agree with however, is where surveys have no real purpose, are poorly designed and/or are not ethical Surveys are not as simple as just “asking some questions”. Also, when huge time is spent creating, distributing and analysing the survey and then nothing is done by the powers that be without any clear rationale. For example, if the response rate was low meaning the data wasn’t representative (i.e all male, SNCOs from ScotNI would not be representative of all in the org) then a message should be put out explaining why action isn’t being taken at this time.That is a waste of responses and shows disrespect to those who completed it.
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Done that. A group of pax - with one who was a flat earther.
Lead pax asked us to burst his bubble - at 47,000 ft, you can see slight curvature of the horizon.
Got him with lots of questions & science / logic, his bubble exploded.
Then, we found out he believed in “chemtrails.” Game on. His brain got fried!! 
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Christ. No!
Sewn only. That’s the rules.
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Do it properly or don’t do it at all is my ethos
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Absolutely, as a Scout I wholeheartedly agree 
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I’ll admit, I like the idea of the display and book, as a record of what’s been achieved, or taking some think like it ta recruitment event.
You could even get a velcro board yourself, and use it for badges back at the squadron.
“OK, where does this badge go?”
The velcro board yes, the glue no. You have to return the brassard when you leave to be reused, this stops that happening. When people glued their brassard when I was a cadet they were given a bill when they left
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back in the day when i was a Cadet, my WO pulled off my “Air Training Corps” badge as one corner had come free/wasn’t sewn on…suffice to say it was sewn on completely the following parade night!
As a cadet I used that iron in tape glue stuff to get the badge in the right place then once it has set I’d stitch it properly around the outside… 
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I think that’s acceptable, nothing wrong with being careful.
Not so easy with the PTS where you’ll be badge changing regularly, ever tried getting that stuff off a brassard?
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I wasn’t a cadet for PTS so that wasn’t really an issue 
I think I had to peel off the classification badge though and don’t remember it being an issue!
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We’ve always let Cadets keep there’s when they leave.
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Especially when it’s an older cadet with a well used brassard, you can hardly re-issue the thing because you have to remove all of their badges and when you do, the scale of the inevitable fading is made clear: the things are U/S.
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