05-13-2011, 02:02 PM
After "playing" with the current variation of the Academy graduation badge, I found it to be of the poorest construction of any badge I have ever come across. I don't know if the one I have is an "emergency gap filler" but the "For Bravery" order and swords are very flat cut metal attached to the main body of the badge with a thick strip of double sided sticky tape. Suffice to say it didn't last too long being so (and even without playing with it the tape will perish). Some glue soon fixed the problem, didn't the factory have any? The factory in question is Зариан-5 in Sofia. After seeing the quality of this particular badge I would never order any other items from them never mind the highest national military academy graduation badge. The screwplate has even been threaded right so it fits at an angle too. If I'd just spent years working on graduating and received this I would be quite disheartened.
