New RAF Uniform
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Some serious backpedaling on the RAF MODNET page. Design concepts only, no decisions made etc etc etc. You know, the sort of ringing endorsement you get from the Board when you’re 2 points above the relegation zone but the Board has full confidence. The Army are lapping it up.
If this sees light of day I’ll be stunned. Does Wiggy really want to be remembered as the CAS who made the ORs’ uniform look like the sort of garb you see worn on a Saturday afternoon in a northern shopping centre?
If this sees light of day I’ll be stunned. Does Wiggy really want to be remembered as the CAS who made the ORs’ uniform look like the sort of garb you see worn on a Saturday afternoon in a northern shopping centre?
Some of the flameproof / fire retardant kit I have worn over the years lost it efficacy after being washed too many times . An excuse some smellies and stinkers would take not to wash very often .
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What is it with the need for hats, whether they be berets, chip bags, SD or other?
I mean, everyone used to wear a hat up to the 50s, so I 7nderstand why the military have them - but people stopped wearing them routinely decades ago.
They aren’t essential for saluting - your arm goes up and down just as easily without one, what other purpose do they serve?
They are obvious uses for bonedomes, helmets and cold weather gear such as parka hoods. I can also ee the need for a baseball cap, or even a kepi, to keep off the sun in tropical climes - but hats?
https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/me...-wearing-hats/
I mean, everyone used to wear a hat up to the 50s, so I 7nderstand why the military have them - but people stopped wearing them routinely decades ago.
They aren’t essential for saluting - your arm goes up and down just as easily without one, what other purpose do they serve?
They are obvious uses for bonedomes, helmets and cold weather gear such as parka hoods. I can also ee the need for a baseball cap, or even a kepi, to keep off the sun in tropical climes - but hats?
https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/me...-wearing-hats/
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What a humiliating, embarrassing mockery of uniform!
Never mind Trenchard turning in his grave, he'd be spinning at 5000rpm looking at that.
Thankfully, after 40+yrs I'm out and wearing something with a modicum of sense.
Never mind Trenchard turning in his grave, he'd be spinning at 5000rpm looking at that.
Thankfully, after 40+yrs I'm out and wearing something with a modicum of sense.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Never mind Trenchard turning in his grave, he'd be spinning at 5000rpm looking at that.
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They aren’t essential for saluting - your arm goes up and down just as easily without one, what other purpose do they serve?
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Originally Posted by Melchett01
Some serious backpedaling on the RAF MODNET page. Design concepts only, no decisions made etc etc etc. You know, the sort of ringing endorsement you get from the Board when you’re 2 points above the relegation zone but the Board has full confidence. The Army are lapping it up.
If this sees light of day I’ll be stunned. Does Wiggy really want to be remembered as the CAS who made the ORs’ uniform look like the sort of garb you see worn on a Saturday afternoon in a northern shopping centre?
If this sees light of day I’ll be stunned. Does Wiggy really want to be remembered as the CAS who made the ORs’ uniform look like the sort of garb you see worn on a Saturday afternoon in a northern shopping centre?
Can't wait to see some big fat old FS in one of those skin tight numbers - Michelin Man impersonations here we come....
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“They aren’t essential for saluting - your arm goes up and down just as easily without one, what other purpose do they serve?”
Because you salute the Officers’ cap or hat badge (i.e. the Crown), and not the person wearing it.
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.
Because you salute the Officers’ cap or hat badge (i.e. the Crown), and not the person wearing it.
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.
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Because you salute the Officers’ cap or hat badge (i.e. the Crown), and not the person wearing it.
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.
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.
“Train in Peace the way you will fight a War”
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Dressed in appropriate workwear, quite right. Coveralls for engineers; something warm for those of airfields, and shirt and slacks for those in offices? Is there need for hoodies and tracksuit bottoms?
