Not wearing CS95 allows respite from operational tempo. It can be used to subliminally denote a period of (almost) R&R away from yet another nose to the grindstone session. As I recall, no one walked around RAFG in IPE all the time, so why the obsession for making everyone believe we're at war all the time now? At Aldergrove in the 70s and 80s, what was the rig of the day then?
A military campaign is not a sprint, and I don't think there's anything wrong in moving more into blues when circumstances allow. For god's sake, an Olympic athlete needs downtime, and even an F1 car has to blip down a cog or two sometimes during a race - it doesn't automatically make it an uncompetitive racecar.
And I think aircrew should be allowed to wear flying rig, just to annoy people.
Last edited by Al R; 3rd Oct 2008 at 13:55.