Ed
I am leaning towards this flag being a LORE/EME flag with the dark blue, the yellow, and the red strips, and with the bottom strip being the light blue colour that was added to the RCEME (LORE) with unification.
On unification, we almost lost all identity and joined the support trades wearing the paperclip. However, our senate fought and managed to get the LORE badge and name. After about 20 years of that we managed to get to be called EME, and now have managed to go full circle back to RCEME. I believe the guys are now being issued new berets in army blue (which is actually black). Apparently, it's historical, but I only have seen those old denim berets in dark blue (black) which were always grease covered...not sure if those are the historical coloured berets that the army is referencing.
There was a saying about the colours when I went to the LORE school in 81. Blue was for the seas we never crossed, red was for the blood we never shed, and yellow was.....well I won't repeat it as it belittles the sacrifices made by RCEME soldiers over the past 75 years.
Ooops, now I am starting to wander.....
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