Originally Posted by PicklePausePull

You're not seriously equating an ALPA lanyard to wearing a uniform in the service, are you?

A more appropriate analogy might be this: we already wear our pilot uniforms with pride. What we have yet to earn is the right to wear a unit patch that shows our success and unity as a team on the battlefield. Like the scene from "Band of Brothers," where the replacements were wearing their Unit Citations for Normandy, though they hadn't even been in combat yet.