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Originally Posted by Phillip Herring
Really? The metal cap and collar badges for all three CIL/CIC elements were available as issue items through clothing stores, complete with NATO stock numbers.
Phil
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I got mine issued to me also. However they were never authorized. The badge that is my avatar was the only badge authorized for CIL members. With Element specific collar dogs. Cadet instructors have always been a bit of an afterthought. For example, after unification CIL members were authorized uniforms but no budget to get them. It was that lack of really giving a damn from Higher formations that led to things like CSofC and CIL members wearing regimental accouterments. That in turn led to CIC members attached to a highland Cadet corp are now authorized to wear highland kit. It became entrenched as a tradition.