21st November 2005, 12:57 PM
Rather than medals I would prefer PIFAs to have the ability to show their career progression through little cloth badges. These can be sewn onto your coat by your mam. Each to show proficiency in the excavation of certain feature types, experience of certain sites, ability to constuct a strat matrix etc. Rather than nine months experience for AIFA status you would need nine badges across certain catagories. MIFAs must have 36 such badges, the final ones being stripey. IFA would have the power to tear off stripes when MIFAs lost touch and failed the unannounced strat matrix test.