Climebear
i guess its so they can all go to the pub at lunchtime. I dont think they wear civvies in the pentagon do they??(i dont know, i've never worked there).


DPSA
I disagree. if we educated the public to be proud of our servicemen there would be no problem at all. I have wandered the streets of many a sh**y place in the world, many times unarmed. I tink if i can do that there i can do it in Lincoln or Manchester or London, but ESPECIALLY an airport.

I still love living in London though, despite the threat, it is a great Capital to a Great Country - and I am proud to have (and still do) defend her!

There I was, minding my own business eating lunch in a pizzeria the other week, in the vicinity of Washington Dulles(t) airport. Imagine my surprise when two RAF Sgts strolled in, wearing uniform, and sat down to watch the football. Noone batted an eyelid.

Certainly wouldnt happen in the UK. Hats off to those guys.

£10 they were adminers. Only way you can get a job overseas now is to be a shiney and post yourself there!

At the end of the day it is really up to the person what he wears. I for one regularly wear rig ashore....Tescos, shops etc. If I felt the need to wear uniform ashore then I would do and Id be bloody proud to do so. Nobody is going to ask/order you to get changed or stop wearing uniform when you are representing and defending this country. And should theyb try then Im sure a quick email to Rebecca Wade would do the trick.

Speaking as a civvie I would prefer to see the lads in uniform.

It's reassuring and surely must pass the message that the country cares from a security point of view and that we all value the hard work that these lad's and lass's have all done.

Clicker

Movers, I would guess, as it was about 5 mins from the airport. I assume therefore that there's an RAF unit there. There is certainly a Luftwaffe one.

could be worse - in Ottawa they p!ss all over military memorials, literally.

a classy town, oh yes.

I have no problem with seeing people in uniform anywhere.

However, do these guys actually _want_ to travel in their uniforms? Unless it's a hassel factor to actually change into civvies, I would have thought they could'nt wait to leave the uniform behind for a while.

I also can't help wondering what all the post would be if they reversed the order and stated that all service personnel MUST wear uniform when travelling whatever the mode and means of transport.

Really? Why not? I may be a little out of touch - has there been a run of attacks on military personnel within the UK recently? Are our terrorist enemies specifically targetting military personnel, their homes and their modes of transport? This must have escaped the BBC's sharpest journalists!

Or is it yet another example of good old British 'I'll make sure they can't sue me' sloping-shoulder disease?

This stinks, as it did in the days of the IRA - when there really was a threat.

Killing some time in Wichita waiting for yet another new (OK, sorry, reconditioned) bit to be sent out for our knackered old FunBus, we were having lunch in a local restaurant.

In walked 4 USAF flight crew in growbags, who sat down and ordered.

Nothing unusual - except that this was a restaurant which some of you will have heard of. Hooters! For those who've never heard of it (poor saps) see http://www.originalhooters.com/

Imagine the Sun headlines if 4 RAF aircrew in growbags called into Hooters in the UK! Incidentally, one of the USAF flight crew was a lady - and she was quite happy to be in Hooters.

BEags,

Did they get a free handful?

Of peanuts!!!! you lot have minds in the gutter :}

visitor
 

I am a corporate captain and only visit the Military forum to see what I have missed.

I live in Gibraltar, and am exposed to the uniform on/off culture, but only slightly.
I always see Navy chaps in uniform in the town, but very few RAF, and never Army, (well perhaps 1). Navy whites always look smart and stylish.

As an aside the Hooters company had until recently their own airline HootersAir.......

Secondly, as the BAA has been taken over by the Spanish, will the uniform policy change?....

Lastly, in almost any US airport you see uniformed service people, and I feel safer.

Thanks for your work, and please dont let the bast&rds get you down.

Bumz.

There was a story I heard immediately post 9/11 that one plane had a load of Marines in uniform on board, when it landed at nearest airport as instructed, a number of young men amongst the passengers quietly disappeared. probably not true, but I think the presence of uniformed personnel is going to make a bad guy think twice.

On wearing uniform in UK, RN does appear to be different - RN were allowed to wear uniform on last weekend's Gay something march, RAF and Army were not, although there was of course no ban on attending

Ref wearing mil uniform on RAF flights...i was travelling to Afghanistan and we stopped off in Romania (dont think you do anymore). We were in uniform all the way and the hotel we stayed in (5*) didnt have a problem with ourselves in uniform.
But i agree with the US attitude to military. Arriving in Sanford Airport in Orlando i was asking for a up-grade and the girl on the rental desk spied my MOD 90 in my wallet. Seeing this she said if i was mil she could do a good deal...so from a crappy focus type car i went up to a Camaro convertible for only $10 extra per day! The Australians treat their forces in the same way as well..

I remember the way the local council tried to sting me for poll tax whilst I was away in GW1. When I pointed out that there was no-one at home, the jobsworth told me that, in that case, it would be classified as a 'holiday home' and I have to pay even more.

Fortunately Hesseltine announced that all who had been away in GW1 would have their tax refunded, so the little $hit at the council office had to eat his words and pay up.

Uniform at airports
 

I am new to this site and first time post, here goes:
I was appalled to read about this subject and hope that someone has drawn the media's attention to it, if not I have a friend who is a jounalist on our local city paper and I will be speaking with him this morning.

I always wore my uniform with pride and always got favourable comments and the people where I lived were always commenting and I couldn't buy a beer when I was home on leave. How sad it is that things seem to have moved full circle.

On the subject the security issue's perhaps the brass or whoever decided on this, if they used the security card, as most tend to, then maybe they should take a look at this link.

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2...-afraid-p1.php


To all those who have served I say this :D :D :D

I am completely bewildered by this thread. To be honest I feel like going to work tonight in my Naval uniform and not my airline one.( I wear a naval belt any way, like a lot of other guys. No one has told me to take it off yet.) I dont think many would notice the difference.Or I may be mistaken for a customs officer. A couple of weeks ago our Flag Officer instructed us to wear our uniforms on the streets to raise public awareness. In doing so he was only emphasising a policy that has been in place for a while now. As to military uniforms being a security threat well I am sorry but I would have thought that it would be a deterent to see squadies all over the place.

DD

Amen to your last:ok: