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Originally Posted by bloggins
As for a lack of ROs or GOs authorizing such badges. I'll give you one example, CIC members up until this year wore a cap badge that wasn't authorized. The cap badge has since been changed back. They were always authorized to be a tri service badge not element specific as they were for 30 years. As for Cadet corp numbers. In the early days of Cadets, numbering was not centralized and sometimes mistakes were often. That is why we have a 72 SHofC cadet corp that is not nearly as old as the number would suggest. Of course it was numbered after the Battalion. A mistake of the day that followed through. There are also early cases of two or more corps having the same number. Cadet Corps have also always been known for just doing their own thing. With the prevailing attitude that it's better to beg for forgiveness than to never do it. If no one cares long enough it becomes entrenched in the corp and stays. As for them falling out side of any authorized number for a corp. There have been over 3000 numbers for a corp across our country since the 1860's. Unless the numbers are higher than that. Even before 1922 there were over 1000 numbers used.
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I will invoke Hitchen's Razor. Please give specific examples
and references.
Phil