Stonker
LE
Once again, you are a symptom of a fundamental British Army malaise.For PCS, different unit traditions and the attachments to 3 CDO mean it isn't a simple problem that can easily be solved by a simple 'sleeves up/sleeves down' order. Could it have been solved by higher command exercising authority? Of course. Is that worth the time, effort and equity needed? I'd say it's not.
Either an order is an order, or it is not.
Discipline must, absolutely must, trump tradition. The value of tradition is vastly overrated, and it is flat wrong for the latter - too often an excuse for perpetuating wasteful or counter-productlve behaviours - to trump the former.