Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
I dont find myself agreeing with the above poster very often but he is spot on. Personally I never like the uniform regulations... I suppose that came from years of military flying in very comfortable flight suits... but the fact of the matter is... if the company requires a uniform to be worn a specific way then WEAR it that way.... as for the ipods and backpacks... I dont have a real problem with those.
This might be true of the flight suit - but did you still not wear it as prescribed (number of patches, types of patches, where those patches were to be located?) and what about all of your OTHER uniforms? Did you not wear those as required by the USAF regulations. I want to wear a flight suit for the rest of my life too - but my standards (and my trainin over the lest many years) will impell me to wear whatever 'uniform' I am required to wear IAW regulations. Maybe some who buck this policy have just never been told what to wear - to include their parents.
To the other poster who mentioned starting wages and the tie to professionalism - - there are LONG threads on those views, but I am one who doesn't buy that tie. I am in the camp that considers professionalism something inside a person that comes out in the performance of ones duties. Our young enlisted military members certainly aren't paid what they are worth or enough for the job they are doing either but I see professionalism exuding from them on a daily basis for the large majority (there is alwats that 10% group of bad apples anywhere you go though
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IMO
USMCFLYR