{"id":15037,"date":"2012-05-12T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T16:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15037"},"modified":"2012-05-12T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T16:33:04","slug":"whats-in-a-name-just-centuries-of-military-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/whats-in-a-name-just-centuries-of-military-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name? Just centuries of military tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The military bureaucrats and their civilian masters are well on the way to stamping out all those awfully old-fashioned names and symbols of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/9258290\/David-Cameron-taking-personal-interest-in-Scottish-regiment-names.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish highland regiments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior Downing Street sources said David Cameron is not yet at the stage of overruling Philip Hammond, his Defence Secretary, over his proposal to replace iconic names like the Black Watch with battalion numbers.<\/p>\n<p>But they were keen to emphasise that no final decision has been made and the Prime Minister is aware of the potential political damage to the campaign to prevent Scotland separating from the UK. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Fury has been mounting since the Defence Secretary told the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> earlier this week that the \u201cancient cap badges have largely gone\u201d and some traditional regimental names are now just \u201cattached in brackets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr Hammond\u2019s proposals, the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS), would become just 3 SCOTS and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlands would be names 5 SCOTS. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The former Labour Government faced a fierce backlash when the battalions were amalgamated in 2005 to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, but they were promised they could keep their historic names.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Duncan, who managed the Save Scotland\u2019s Army Regiments campaign, said yesterday it had restarted and nearly 1,500 had signed up in only 48 hours using the social networking site Facebook. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military bureaucrats and their civilian masters are well on the way to stamping out all those awfully old-fashioned names and symbols of the Scottish highland regiments: Senior Downing Street sources said David Cameron is not yet at the stage of overruling Philip Hammond, his Defence Secretary, over his proposal to replace iconic names like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[31,389,338],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-military","tag-army","tag-davidcameron","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15038,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions\/15038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}