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Okay guys, be gentle with me... I've done all the stuff I'm supposed to: I used the search function, looked at the thread on recurring subjects, and I can't find the answer to my question.
I'm still reeling here. What the hell is happening with Jimmy? I just looked at this website (at the suggestion of a poster on another thread).
http://www.forces.gc.ca/admmat/dglepm/badges-insignia/cap_badges-METAL_e.htm
...and discovered the word OBSOLETE in big red letters beside my old cap badge (Communications and Electronics Branch). Now I admit, my trade has gone the way of the Dodo bird (Radio/Teletype Op), but COME-ON! You still need to communicate, don't you?
The figure rendered on that cap badge (affectionately refered to as "Jimmy") is based on a bronze casting done in the late 1500s by Giovanni da Bologna, and had been a part of the Canadian Signal Corps, Communication Command etc. since the 1920s. And now someone's going to try and tell me he's obsolete?
I think not. What have they done to Jimmy?
I'm still reeling here. What the hell is happening with Jimmy? I just looked at this website (at the suggestion of a poster on another thread).
http://www.forces.gc.ca/admmat/dglepm/badges-insignia/cap_badges-METAL_e.htm
...and discovered the word OBSOLETE in big red letters beside my old cap badge (Communications and Electronics Branch). Now I admit, my trade has gone the way of the Dodo bird (Radio/Teletype Op), but COME-ON! You still need to communicate, don't you?
The figure rendered on that cap badge (affectionately refered to as "Jimmy") is based on a bronze casting done in the late 1500s by Giovanni da Bologna, and had been a part of the Canadian Signal Corps, Communication Command etc. since the 1920s. And now someone's going to try and tell me he's obsolete?
I think not. What have they done to Jimmy?