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Originally Posted by cloudbuster

No 'Cravat of Jolly Well Done"?

You missed out, big-time.

My god man, you're right.............they really must have disliked me. I wonder if I should put in for a redress?

To err....demand my "Jolly"

Fret not, I have a spare in the back of the wardrobe.

Originally Posted by Flying Felix

It has to be an officer thing............I did the exactly same thing in '98 and all I got was a well done on the next day's morning briefing.

More a "just and open, honest culture" thing.

The lad did well, he didn't nominate himself for the award, he just did what he's been trained to do, i.e. report a fault. It's the system that did the rest.

I think it's laudable that in the early stages of a flying career students are encouraged and rewarded for displaying awareness and integrity. You never know, such a culture in the past might have saved a few bent airframes.

Reminds me of a friend on parade at Sandhurst:

CSgt: Okay, Gentlemen. Hope you all enjoyed your first weekend away - you deserved it after passing off the square. Any dramas or things I should know?

< Momentary silence >

OCdt speaks up: I stopped a woman getting raped on Saturday night...

CSgt: Err... really? Thats quite impressive. What happened?

< Pause >

OCdt: ... I had a wank before I went out.

< Boom-tish! >

Whoopee-Fcuking-Doo. This happens on a daily basis at my squadron and every squadron everywhere. Not so much by the pilots. They usually find things after playing with things they have no business playing with.
Pilot does his job, put him in the paper.
Lowly technician does his job, make him stay late to fix the cunting thing.

Squadron Leader Neil Hope, community relations officer at RAF Shawbury, said: “It wouldn’t have flown for very long.

There's an appropriate name if ever there was one although wtf is a 'community relations officer' and what on earth has he got to do with flying?

He was presented with an Air Officer Commanding No 22 Training Group Flight Safety Award from Captain Paul Shawcross, Commandant of the Defence Helicopter Flying School,

I assume that Captain Shawcross is RN or is this an example of reductions in senior posts going slightly too far?

I assume that Captain Shawcross is RN

Yes, he is.

A USMC jet mech I knew who'd worked on F4, Harrier, and Hornet took it as an article of faith that it if it didn't leak fluids like a sieve, it wasn't a McDonnell-Douglas product.