Originally Posted by
blastoff
Which in these days, for force protection reasons should be avoided rather than required, as it is with in the Air Force ops community already.
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, yes it's probably a tiny bit safer safer to travel in civvies, although the haircut, etc usually gives them away anyhow.
On the other hand...I don't like giving in to the bad guys to the point where we have to hide in plain sight in CONUS.
OCONUS, absolutely as low a profile as possible.