Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Sometimes they don't even know the FOM, let alone the FARs. My probationary meetings took place during jacket season. So I was down in the office with one of them, and at the end he was like "Oh, just BTW I see you don't have your brass on your shirt, just make sure you're wearing that properly," Me, with literally less than 6 months on property: "Actually, the FOM says that name tags and wings are optional on the shirt if the jacket is worn." CP: "huh, I didnt' know that, I guess I'll have to look that up."
To be fair, if the guy doesn't know the uniform section of the FOM by heart he's probably not the guy out and about the terminal playing uniform Stasi