RFA medals?
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Why wouldn't they? Some civilians have been and will be further up threat than some servicemen ever will be.
The then Commodore of the RFA was in Command at sea. He'd been at sea during WWII.
An old and very senior Bootneck told my class that the main reason blokes don't wimp out of combat is because they don't want their mates to think they're a ******.
Others have old fashioned ideas of duty, honour and double pay during hostilities.
The then Commodore of the RFA was in Command at sea. He'd been at sea during WWII.
An old and very senior Bootneck told my class that the main reason blokes don't wimp out of combat is because they don't want their mates to think they're a ******.
Others have old fashioned ideas of duty, honour and double pay during hostilities.
It's a few years since I looked up the exact legislation/regulations by which the RFA came under at least elements of the Naval Discipline Act when on "operations". During the introduction of Sponsored Reserve status one of the arguments made by RFA HQ was that under the previous arrangements any time an RFA left UK territorial waters in company with a warship the crew became subject to the NDA, and this was effectively conscription.
With regards to berets, new entrants (I think the last 12/18 months) are issued with baseball caps with the RFA insignia on. So at present there's a mix of both in the service.
The idea of this is the RN officer types aren't expecting you to chop them one off when marching around naval establishments wearing the PCS. Although this isn't always the case as a recent 3 ringer female officer showed in Raleigh. She tore a strip of an App Dk who had the audacity to just say morning ma'am and not salute! Poor lad had never been shown how to and why should he have been!!!!
The idea of this is the RN officer types aren't expecting you to chop them one off when marching around naval establishments wearing the PCS. Although this isn't always the case as a recent 3 ringer female officer showed in Raleigh. She tore a strip of an App Dk who had the audacity to just say morning ma'am and not salute! Poor lad had never been shown how to and why should he have been!!!!
Palm facing the officer or tilted hand, shortest way up longest way down or vice versa, left or right hand, fingertips to side of the head or over the eyes, three fingered dib dib dib???????
My point is he hadn't been shown (19yrs old) because we shouldn't have the need to do it. Do other civil servants chop off an officer? And we don't even salute our own.
My point is he hadn't been shown (19yrs old) because we shouldn't have the need to do it. Do other civil servants chop off an officer? And we don't even salute our own.
Is being killed in action walt-ish? If so 11 RFA Walts died in the Falklands War.
The Police and Fire Services salute. Lord Lieutenants salute. FCO Commissioners and Governors in uniform salute.
There was a time when the AA saluted and the Merchant Navy did too, bus drivers, park keepers, grave diggers, postmen, airline pilots, gentlemen.
When the Queen names a passenger ship, there is saluting.
Bollockings for not saluting when there is no requirement is bad form. However, imagine the indignation if a junior RFA type did salute an RN Officer and that Officer did not return the salute because there is no requirement.
Saluting is a mark of courtesy and mutual respect, not foreplay, not walting.
The Police and Fire Services salute. Lord Lieutenants salute. FCO Commissioners and Governors in uniform salute.
There was a time when the AA saluted and the Merchant Navy did too, bus drivers, park keepers, grave diggers, postmen, airline pilots, gentlemen.
When the Queen names a passenger ship, there is saluting.
Bollockings for not saluting when there is no requirement is bad form. However, imagine the indignation if a junior RFA type did salute an RN Officer and that Officer did not return the salute because there is no requirement.
Saluting is a mark of courtesy and mutual respect, not foreplay, not walting.
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