Ok, things are a lot different now but when I did my tour at Akrotiri 85-88 there were some pretty strange uniform rules then. One was (in winter) that during exercises or ops you would wear your normal DPM with a light blue shirt underneath. During another exercise the Staish decreed that everybody would Cam up, what a site he made with a cammed up face and the effect spoilt by his scrambled egg on his hat! At that time I worked on the Lox plant and it certainly took some time explaining that wearing oil based cam cream could lead to a big smoking hole in the middle of the base. Ahh happy days.