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Originally Posted by Gaznav
I was a wearer of the Navigator Flying Badge and I am now the wearer of the Weapon Systems Officer Flying Badge as a serving Flying Branch Wg Cdr - I also didn’t take issue when someone from the RAF Historical Society told me that the use of the word ‘Brevet’ was wrong. In fact the person who told me was a retired officer who was also the wearer of a Navigator Flying Badge.
If we get things wrong then we shouldn’t be too proud not to admit it and from then on get it right?  |
'Badges of the Empire's Waggoners,' states 'Army Council Instruction 416 of the 9th October 1957 authorised the wearing of the Air Despatch brevet badge.'
It refers to the RASC Air Despatch brevet on a number of occasions as a brevet.