Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
An ex-Navy guy giving us crap about a military service clinging to some old out of date tradition? Good God, a newly commissioned Ensign (why can't you guys just use the ranks the other three mil services use?
) needs to take out a second mortgage just to buy all the various uniforms he's required to maintain.
OK... you got me on that one.
Unlike the Navy, the USAF has always considered the flight suit a uniform, which is huge, IMO. That means it's an acceptable UOD almost 100% of the time. No flight duties scheduled? You can still wear it. Going to the O-club for lunch or to knock back a few? No problem.
I can count the number of times I wore something other than a bag on 2 hands over a 22 year career.
You got me there, too. It was amazing how the whims of the everyone from the squadron CO up to the CNO drove the constant policy changes on the when and where we could wear the flight suit.
Still, I've never been stopped by security and told I had to walk through a break in a painted line to access my plane at a Navy or Marine Air Station.