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Old 24-05-18, 11:14 PM
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No, mostly LACs. The white flash in the sidecaps indicated aircrew in training and they would not necessarily have been commissioned on completion of training.
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No, mostly LACs. The white flash in the sidecaps indicated aircrew in training and they would not necessarily have been commissioned on completion of training.
I didn't realise that the RNZAF used the white tape just to signify training.

Thinking about it though, I don't suppose that all actual officer cadets actually became officers in the end.
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I didn't realise that the RNZAF used the white tape just to signify training.

Thinking about it though, I don't suppose that all actual officer cadets actually became officers in the end.
Again they are not "officer cadets", they were other ranks who were "aircrew in training" (pilots, navigators, flight engineers, bomb aimers, air gunners, etc). Some would be commissioned on attaining wings standard, some would be promoted to sergeant, some could be SOL and stay the same rank depending on circumstances. In the words of one New Zealander who trained as a pilot in Canada - “At the completion of training, the top third in the course were commissioned when we got our wings.”

The white flash to signify "aircrew in training" was not solely a RNZAF thing; all the Commonwealth trainees in Canada for the EATS/BCATP were similarly identified.
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