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New USAF Uniforms?


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#1 Papa Herk

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:44 AM

So is Norty's new legacy that we will not only be wearing blues every week, but now we'll be wearing the USAF band dress uniform? Discuss amongst yourselves...

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#2 ExBoneOSO

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:54 AM

Please tell me that Gen Welsh didn't wear that....

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 11:07 AM

Yep. Norty, Gen Welsh, and CMSAF were all wearing the band uniform.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 11:32 AM

WTF?

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:10 PM

So much fail.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:13 PM

Here's another pic.

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#7 guim

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:19 PM

Looks like Marine dress blues, except the enlisted ones. Just has the silver outline instead of red.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:43 PM

View PostHU&W, on 10 August 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Here's another pic.

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:vomit:

View PostExBoneOSO, on 10 August 2012 - 10:54 AM, said:

Please tell me that Gen Welsh didn't wear that....


I hope to god, he didn't choose to wear that. My questions is where are the E-9s flipping sh*t over an unapproved uniform?

View PostChuck17, on 16 March 2013 - 12:45 PM, said:

This is a non-idea from non-thinking, non-operator glass-lickers at A1.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 01:39 PM

View PostScaredfuzz21, on 10 August 2012 - 12:43 PM, said:

I hope to god, he didn't choose to wear that. My questions is where are the E-9s flipping sh*t over an unapproved uniform?


I doubt anyone was twisting the arm of the Supreme Air Force Commander to wear it. He wore it of his own free will.

At least he had the decency to dash any hopes of drastically improved leadership early on. Very early on.

Here we go again, leadership via uniform policy.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 01:51 PM

But...but...but... he gave some great speeches at the academy! He sent a letter out to USAFE fighter pilots! He's really going to turn things around!

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 02:30 PM

Come on guys. it has been a few years since the last uniform change....it is time. With these wars winding down, people need new OPR bullets. Go AF Band!


#12 ȘĹİňŦ

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 03:36 PM

Some would argue our current "blues" uniform is decidedly un-militaristic.....I don't give a sh*t what the uniform looks like, just so long as I only have to wear it once in a while....jus sayin.....
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 04:33 PM

It's not that the uniform itself looks bad necessarily; it's that it would seem there are so many more important things to worry about ahead of this. I hear you get your choice of musical instrument issue as part of the package. Joking aside, nothing official has come down that we're switching to this, has it? Maybe they just wanted to change it up for the ceremony - who knows.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 04:40 PM

View Postgearpig, on 10 August 2012 - 01:39 PM, said:


I doubt anyone was twisting the arm of the Supreme Air Force Commander to wear it. He wore it of his own free will.

At least he had the decency to dash any hopes of drastically improved leadership early on. Very early on.

Here we go again, leadership via uniform policy.


If this is from the swearing in, isn't Schwartz technically still the CSAF? Wouldn't he be the one who decides what the uniform of the day?

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 04:49 PM

Dude, what the hell. Thats it I am going to work in Air Force scrubs. Do they have those? If they do I am going to be in them next week. Whatever, I do what I want.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 04:51 PM

View PostSocialD, on 10 August 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:


If this is from the swearing in, isn't Schwartz technically still the CSAF? Wouldn't he be the one who decides what the uniform of the day?


I guess it's possible.

Gen Schwartz: "Hey Mark, we're gonna wear the USAF Band uniform for the change of command. That cool with you?"

Gen Welsh: "LOL. Good one."

Gen Schwartz: "...."

Gen Welsh: (YGBFKM)

I'd like to think that's how it went.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 05:15 PM

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"Sweet mother of God, what the fuck are those idiots doing?"

Never thought I'd say this, but those two clowns make McPeak look like a sartorial genius.

Edited by LJDRVR, 10 August 2012 - 05:17 PM.


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Posted 10 August 2012 - 05:28 PM

View PostExBoneOSO, on 10 August 2012 - 10:54 AM, said:

Please tell me that Gen Welsh didn't wear that....


You want me to lie to you or.......

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 06:56 PM

This should be in the WTF thread!

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:08 PM

I'll preface what I'm about to say by thanking the admins for the removal of the dislike button...

But I think whatever they are wearing is pretty cool and it would be nice to have a dress uniform that attracts women as opposed to them thinking we are wearing poorly fitted 50's bus driver uniforms.

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edit: spelin' (see remainder of thread for indepth critique)

Edited by Catbox, 11 August 2012 - 10:32 AM.






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