Pringle wrote:Negative. Everyone who is rearcrew now wears the WSOp brevet. (Only those who earned the LM brevet or any other type can still wear them. Qualified WSOps now have to wear the brevet below. Unless you're a loadie on the course behind me at Cranwell who is on 10's and still wears an LM brevet to 'stop confusion between loadies and navs'. I believe the officer rank tabs will be the thing that makes the most difference... :roll: )
I was going to say it's a bit different on the 10. WSOs wear "N" brevets (as someone pointed out, exactly which of the INUs, GPS, Tacans or ADFs is the weapons system? Maybe it's the clock. Or their flourescent lamp.), and WSOps wear the LM brevet.
Funny old world. Then again, changing a perfectly good system seems fashionable. I wonder what they'll change pilot to one day?
Our Ops Officer has a quote above his desk, it's about 10 lines long but can be summed up as:-
'We confuse change with progress'
It was written by a Roman Legionnaire.
I suppose the best way to denote your job is now to have your áctual´job title (í.e. nav, loadmaster etc.) on the patch worn on your flying suit. I think that the two crewman rule now used on bigger aircraft (Chinook and Merlin) must add to the ´Glorified Porter´tag that Tom used. We carried a ¨Rock-ape¨ to act as additional door gunner when required, nowadays I see (on TV) crewmen acting as gunners more often than doing navigation and more ínteresting and clever´ stuff down the back. You could always try and go SAR , Tom that is always a bit more exiting...to say the least.
There has always been a motion in place (usually from navs ) for all aircrew (as in the US style) to have two wings, that at least has been put to bed for another 10 years.
Now that we have to wear blues to work, I suspect the next campaign will be to introduce Australian style wings to be worn on the light blue shirt. Otherwise aircrew will be forced to wear jumpers all year round to let everyone know they're aircrew!
Hot_Charlie wrote:Now that we have to wear blues to work
Unless you're at the operational sharp end of the business! When I say operational sharp end, I mean being sponged for a ground run or airtest at the last minute, so you must wear flying suits at all times. :roll:
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