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23-09-07, 05:16
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Of IGs and AIGs
Those of us who served at the various Artillery Schools and were qualifed Instructor In Gunnery (officers) or Assistant Instructor In Gunnery (Sgts-MWO) wore the forage cap. Qualification came by means of the IG or AIG course (year long everything artillery intensive courses).
IGs wear the British Army brown forage cap with a red band above the visor, with a bronze artillery badge. The AIGs wear the CF forage hat with a white covering, red band and brass artillery badge. Some commandants (obviously not IGs and therefore slow of mind) restricted the use of the IG/AIG hat to field duties only. Other more educated and enlightened Commandants insisted upon its wear whenever instructional duty called. So, it is a long-standing tradition in the Artillery world that should live on. Master Gunners are another beast altogether (although a lot of AIGs went on to become Master Gunners).
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RHC Why is it that when you have the $$, you don't have the time, and when you have the time you don't have the $$? Last edited by RHClarke; 23-09-07 at 05:37. 
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