Originally Posted by
Timelord
I think it’s great. The Space Ops brevet will go with it perfectly.
BV “ Scratchy blue trousers and jumper”? It’s like silk compared to the “hairy blue” battle dress that a previous generation tolerated and I’ll never know how. Six months wearing it at OCTU was quite enough for me.
As a former wearer, not always meeting the approval of some of the more pedantic uniform obsessives I'm pleased to say, of this combination of cloth and sandpaper, you have my sympathies, but from your perspective thankfully only for a few short months.
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that would mean a NO1 could have the trousers replaced without the full set"
Slightly off topic, but still related, when it came to the No1 trousers, and "hairy blue" in Germany, some of us on 431 were whisked off very soon after arrival to a certain surplus store in Roermond, where, by an amazing coincidence there was a never ending supply of Dutch uniform trousers remarkably similar in colour and style to the RAF version...this did raise a few eyebrows from the above pedants, but, ensured your legs weren't ripped to pieces .