Originally Posted by
AGS Man
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.
To put that in context:
At Coningsby, same time, I was at a brief and singled out as the only one wearing the proper kit. I can't remember at the time but I confessed to the staish later that I too had some variation.
As mentioned, blue shirts were common as the green shirts were uncomfortable and unpopular. I think OC Ops won on sartorial grounds and the biggest variation with the staishes aprobation (before he was later sacked for certain indiscretions). He wore an aircrew polo shirt with a KD shirt on top. Very poofy,(but that was not the indiscretion, (quite the reverse in fact).