RAF Regiment - what next?

[ricardian]

Photo from Facebook, posted by the City of Leicester RAFA

RAF Regiment Trainee Gunners 5-19 Graduation
Congratulations go to the 19 members of TG 5-19 El Alamein Flight that have graduated here at RAF Honington today. Usually attended by families and friends, the graduation took place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak.

What has happened to the RAF since I was demobbed in 1973? This chap looks like a fugitive from the Foreign Legion!

[4mastacker]

WTF is that on his head? Para walt!!

Extract from the dress regs.

Beret. This is to be worn so that the band is horizontal around the head, 25 mm above the eyebrows. Loose material of the crown is to be drawn down to the right side and the badge clearly displayed in a position directly above the left eye.

That rock's DI needs a kick up the @r$e.

[Rwy in Sight]

WTF is that on his head? Para walt!!

Extract from the dress regs.

Beret. This is to be worn so that the band is horizontal around the head, 25 mm above the eyebrows. Loose material of the crown is to be drawn down to the right side and the badge clearly displayed in a position directly above the left eye.

That rock's DI needs a kick up the @r$e.

Maybe this guy need to be in the "Don't do that" section of the dress regs. BTW the beret is what initially annoyed when I saw the picture

[Undried Plum]

He also needs to stand a bit closer to the razor when he shaves.

[FD2]

I think he's just trying to look like a proper hard man - para, bootneck etc. Uniform regs are just for pansies.

I heard from someone present at the time that a small group of rock apes turned up for winter training in Oberammergau and started a fight with some locals at a bar called The Aquarium. It really didn't end well for them at all. Insulting Germany and half pissed Germans on their home turf - very bad idea.

[G~Man]

Hate to say it, but at least the 'pongos" know how to wear a beret... My nephew graduated 2 weeks ago and is now in the Royal Anglian Regiment, he is the first in the family to join the "other" side---we have had a member serving in the RAF constantly since my Grandfather was in the RNAS in 1914.

Nephew showing how to wear a beret----need to work on his father a little....

[Pontius Navigator]

You know, I never realised Jeremy had been in the RAF.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.5fe3 ... BRpNJlM%3d

[FD2]

Very smart G~Man. I hope he does well.

[4mastacker]

You know, I never realised Jeremy had been in the RAF.
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Didn't you know? He's been a leading light in the Red Army Faction for many a year.

[Boac]

Jeremy??? Any clues? Clarkson, Corbyn, Wright, Ngakia....

[Ex-Ascot]

Never understood why anyone would want to be a Rock Ape. Why not just become a Pongo. What do they do apart from try to shove you in a gas chamber and then ask you to take off your gas mask which I always refused to do. Their first aid training is a joke. When Mrs Ex-Ascot did the Tarts and Vicars 5 min officer training course an orthopedic surgeon was failed by a Rock on how to fix a broken leg.

A mate of mine at Uni was this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drissell He never attended any lectures. Then he tries to disarm a robber with a shooter in London when serving at MOD and got shot. Well of course you would. Hands up here any pilot who would do that. No, of course not.