Originally Posted by
onetrack
It always pays to remember - when they are cutting you out of your crashed aircraft - the medics will also cut off all the clothing that is covering your injuries - and that could mean your glorious bars ending up in the dirt, and being trampled on, by all and sundry - and with you being transported into ER, as just another barely-dressed, hapless, injury patient!!

Yes, that would be my first concern if I was badly injured in a crash

I guess you always travel(pax or crew) in old dirty clothes just in case