Originally Posted by
toratoratora
Anyway, just stick with whatever the Army wears. The RAF should absolutely retain the ethos of a fighting service, if just as a reminder to the troops.
YES. In my DISTAFF days at WAD and later across 11 Gp, I became convinced that large slabs of the Light Blue were thinking, and behaving, like a civilian outfit. Like the Chf Tech I encountered making his leisurely way to 44 Sqn’s hangar, at least 30 min if not more after the horn had gone off. Yes, in full V-Force days. “I had a quick shower and shave, Sir.” FFS. I made him double the rest of the way to his cup of peacetime coffee.
Wear Combat Dress. It doesn’t seem to stop the US forces, and others, from operating effectively. Dressing like a civvy chav would, IMO, have the opposite effect
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“Train in Peace the way you will fight a War”
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