When is Minister Smith going to make us the RDF and Naval Reserve?
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Reserve Defence Force
According to my Cadre the order was signed sometime last week or the week before. The new Bde Trg plan also holds little joy for wasters….
In a not altogether unrelated point has anyone seen any sign of the integrated reserve being set up, or even some signs of life?
He also said that he has heard unofficial rumblings about an RDF shoulder-flash. Any info?
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Oh God visions of FCA shoulder flash (for those of us old enough to remember) are coming back to me. Personally I dont like the idea of an FCA/RDF badge to make us stand out. While we are in uniform we are expected to carry out the same tasks as our PDF brothers, wearing a flash like that will only help to differenciate the RDF from the PDF when I thought the whole idea was to integrate the two units, not make us stand out from one another.
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We should be proud of the fact that we are in the reserve and can hold down a full time job as well as part time one.
Whats the story, RDF?
I taught that RDF was a Reserve Defence Forces and in that there will be / is Army Reserve (old FCA) and Naval Reserve ( old S.M.).
Don't like the RDF title.
The shoulder flash? A lot of units in other armys wear small sholder flashes, as long as they are not as bad looking as the old FCA one,
How will have input to its design??? Will all reserve units have the same one??
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I thought that no flashes were to be worn on the DPM? Is this flash for the No.1's?
I remember that FCA and a CO that insisted that we wore it one everything, No.1's & WD dear god no
Of course it could be another army rumour
This is RDFRA's policy since ADC 2002
12. No distinguishing badges between the RDF and the PDF in line with the Steering Group's report
Taken from that informative RDFRA website that I have slated elsewhereYou're even dumber than I tell people
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Wearing a shoulder flash sayiny we are reserveists is like asking for a mocking. Its like the issued with the No.1`s, we have tryed to be treated like the PDF for years and then they come along and try and put us down even furtherOnly the dead have seen the end of war - Plato
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i'm sure that the reserve flash is just a rumour, they cant even get 2 stars out for the bodies that need them.
Surely a move like this will be resisted by RDFRAYou're even dumber than I tell people
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Why do you say that?
If we are being reorg-ed on the basis of the steering groups recommendations then why would that introduce something that goes against those recommendations?
If RDFRA's policy is to ensure that there are no distinguishing badges between the PDF & RDF why are they not doing something about it?You're even dumber than I tell people
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Don't you think the beret is a bit of giveaway??? It's not like we're indistinguishable from the PDF. A green shoulder patch is not going to have an effect on how the PDF see us, and Joe public generally doesn't have a clue about small details like that.
Why not have a patch? I'm proud to be in the reserve, and generally alternate between thinking I should have joined the PDF and being glad I didn't for various reasons.
In time, we will lose the FCA 'fools carrying arms' perception, but only if we can show that we are better trained, committed and a different entity. Sadly, at the moment, it seems that despite the uniforms and shiny new guns, nothing else has changed. It's up to us to change PDF perception.
What do you think of that? And what else do you know about it Bravo??
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