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Fleet Air Arm parachute wings
Can anyone explain why this rating is wearing parachute wings during Ark Royal’s last sailing?
Thanks, Colin S |
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Because she has done the course??????
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Very unusual for a Sailor to be para trained and even rare for a woman to have done the jumps course. To be wearing the full wings rather than the light bulb does suggest an operational role but I am unsure just what that would be. It may be from previous service with an Army or Reserve unit but again for a woman to have qualified is very rare as the number of women who have passed P Coy is probably still in single figures.
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I too would think either done the course or maybe she is a rigger???
Terry |
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The number of women who have passed the AACC is even fewer than P Coy so SPAG or CD are most likely. Bit of a cheek wearing the full wings without having passed PCoy, AACC or SF selection in my opinion.
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The RN does not really subscribe to the lightbulb, if you do the course you wear the wings. That said there have been cases of persons having done a recreational course "mistakenly" believing they are entitled.
There is no requirement for completing an arduous course, them's the RN regs. |
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Think you might find that SPAG, who do exclusively "wet" jumps, often at night, in atrocious weather conditions, a long way from land, in areas with the odd shark or two, may say para's have it easy! And I don't think you'll find any CD's, who have a stupendous level of fitness, and have passed an incredibly arduous training course and do an extremely arduous and dangerous job, would consider themselves anything, but at least as fit as a para!
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Thanks for all your replies, but behind my question is the fact she is wearing a speciality badge which indicates a naval aviation mechanic, so not CD or SPAG or Cdo. The Ark Royal went out of service in 2011, long before a female first passed P Company, so a great mystery. Another photo from the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005 shows another female rating wear full parachute wings on her dress uniform. Unexplained mysteries.....
Colin S. |
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Last edited by sailorbear; 23-07-23 at 08:23 PM. |
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