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Originally Posted by SAS1
that position (Commandant) always being a serving RAF officer.
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This was always the stated case, but strictly-speaking it's an over-simplification. Wartime commandants for the Corps were photographed wearing the collar brass 'A's of the Auxiliary Air Force.
I have always meant to check in the Gazette, but I think that although the vast majority of ROC Commandants were serving regular RAF Air Commodores, key figures holding that position were sometimes actually holding commissions in the AAF or the Reserve of Air Force Officers.
Certainly in my time of service (1970s through to the end, then RAuxAF) it was always end-tour regular Air Cdres