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Old 24-04-21, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by fearnaught View Post
Hi AATTV, I think Vincent has it correct, the blue colour on Moldovian badges tends to be a lighter shade. The excellent site Kokosar identifies it as "contract worker" but sometimes the meaning gets lost in translation. Both Romania and Moldova use the Cyrilic alphabet but the M and A are the same in the Latin alphabet, hence my jump, wrongly, to the conclution the M A stood for Moldovian Armia, hope this helps Mike
My first thought when I saw the badge was Military Academy , when you translate the Kokosar entry it is "Soldiers under contract from the 90s". I wonder if this could refer to civilian/ ex military instructors teaching at Academies ?

http://www.kokosar.com/romanian_army.html


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