Advice from servicemen and women?

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I've been through this, Arlen, in honouring my late father who died three years ago at the age of 85, having served in the RAF from 1940 to 1946. I was only ever in the Air Training Corps in my youth and never joined the full-time RAF.
The Royal Air Force now have a tartan and following enquiries I was eventually able to buy a kilt through their official kiltmaker. The kiltmaker said that while these kilts were normally pleated to the stripe as military kilts for servicemen and ex-servicemen he would pleat mine to the sett. I wear it when I'm on duty at Solway Aviation Museum, summer weekends. The kilt pin which I originally attached was my family crest but I have recently replaced this with a simple thistle motif from KiltGoodies. I wear it with my official museum uniform sweatshirt, to which I have attached an Air Training Corps badge, as well as my own Private Pilot wings badge and my airport security tag, as may be seen in the photo below. I wouldn't wear any of my father's badges or medals and in fact I have placed all these on display in the museum. So I'd say go for it and get a kilt to honour your relative and wear your cadet badge either on your shirt or as a kilt pin.