"Corporate Uniform" Gone!!

[NCRblues]

ah.....countdown...i get it

[Hawk200]

ah.....countdown...i get it

Yep. Didn't expect fireworks, though.

[High Speed Low Drag]

From "The Sentinel," 01 DEC 09:
" CAPR 62-1 is the guiding document for safety awards and it is
important for commanders at all levels in CAP to remember that awards
and recognition are the only "pay" we can offer our members. With that
said, here is a quick review of CAP safety awards as well as a few tips to
increase chances of success in winning one."

Should be amended to: "...that awards and recognition are the only "pay" we can offer our members – and only those that can wear the AF-style uniform"

Just a little venting at those that think the fat & fuzzies should not have a military-style uniform.

[RogueLeader]

You can wear your CAP awards on white and grays.  Just no mil stuff, which is impossed by CAP not the AF.

[Eclipse]

You can wear your CAP awards on white and grays.  Just no mil stuff, which is impossed by CAP not the AF.

Yes, you can.  Please reference my post regarding looking like an 8th grader who forgot it was picture day when you are standing in a line of fellow members in service jackets and you're in a shirt.

"Well, just wear the blazer, then."

Yep, except, you know, that ribbon / badge thing.

[RickFranz]

You can wear your CAP awards on white and grays.  Just no mil stuff, which is impossed by CAP not the AF.

What you say it very true. 

But if you walk into a room of folks wearing the AF style jacket with all their ribbons, wings and badges on.  Then you walk in with a Blazer on, you feel under dressed.  On the other had most folks that I have seen that where the AF style uniform when not wearing the jacket only wear miniature wings and badges.  Well you walk in with the grey and whites with all your bling, now you feel over dressed.

There just does not seem to be a happy middle ground with two different style uniforms being allowed.

[RogueLeader]

Then the commander should have wear guidence for awards.  All Authorized awards/ badges/ just badges, or minimum.   

Thats a Commanders job.

[Eclipse]

Then the commander should have wear guidence for awards.  All Authorized awards/ badges/ just badges, or minimum.   

Thats a Commanders job.

Badges and ribbons are required on service dress - at any formal event where a jacket is required you have the line of
military-esque guys with their finery, and the group of officials from the Kremlin (or Hogwarts, if you prefer), and/or worse the
guys with the plastic pocket protectors.

If jelly beans and badges are the only "pay", why is member "A's" finery more "important" than member "B's" who happens to be
fully slim and trim, but wears a neat beard?

[Hawk200]

So why not allow ribbons/badges on the blazer? Move nametag to the right side. Voila! Everybody has decorations.

[arajca]

Well, gee. That looks like the AF service coat, minus the epaulets. In low light, you'd never know the difference.

[wuzafuzz]

Well, gee. That looks like the AF service coat, minus the epaulets. In low light, you'd never know the difference.

No worries, before long we'll probably be concerned the uniform sounds the same to legally blind folks.

[RogueLeader]

Then the commander should have wear guidence for awards.  All Authorized awards/ badges/ just badges, or minimum.   

Thats a Commanders job.

Badges and ribbons are required on service dress - at any formal event where a jacket is required you have the line of
military-esque guys with their finery, and the group of officials from the Kremlin (or Hogwarts, if you prefer), and/or worse the
guys with the plastic pocket protectors.

If jelly beans and badges are the only "pay", why is member "A's" finery more "important" than member "B's" who happens to be
fully slim and trim, but wears a neat beard?

Even on the service coat, it says all or some.  And if thats the case that Blues withService coats are the  UOD, then the Greys put all of their blinage on.

[Eclipse]

Even on the service coat, it says all or some.  And if thats the case that Blues withService coats are the  UOD, then the Greys put all of their blinage on.

You're missing the point entirely - wearing the ribbons under the blazer is silly - no one sees them - and a white shirt with ribbons is not equivalent to a service jacket in terms of formality or appearance, thus the "8th grader / picture day analogy". 

The only way to display your finery is to stand in line wearing a shirt with no hat when all the others are in a jacket with a cover.

[billford1]

The gray slacks will always look screwed up. 

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

The gray slacks will always look screwed up.

Seconded.

I have never been able to figure out why grey was chosen as an "alternative" uniform.

[sparks]

Instead of grey slacks why not dark blue or black? Someone wearing a polo and dark slacks would look more "uniform" when standing next to someone wearing the corporate dark blue flight suit or field uniform. Dark slacks and a blazer would look like a Navy uniform but it would be a small price to pay for uniformity.

[Major Carrales]

military-esque guys with their finery, and the group of officials from the Kremlin (or Hogwarts, if you prefer), and/or worse the guys with the plastic pocket protectors.

Don't forget welcoming Spock's Parents, Sarek and Amanda, on board the USS Enterprise and those awkward times when Lando offers to host a spur of the moment dinner party to discuss cool "deal" he has made that will keep the Empire out of out hair.

[Major Carrales]

Well, gee. That looks like the AF service coat, minus the epaulets. In low light, you'd never know the difference.

Bring on the new WAL*MART greeter vests with ribbons, badges and pocket protector.  Of course it has to be color 1625.

[Major Carrales]

The gray slacks will always look screwed up.

Seconded.

I have never been able to figure out why grey was chosen as an "alternative" uniform.

Seriously, Brig General Anderson told me that it was to reflect the gray in the CAP flag, the the change from maroon to gray shoulder marks.  If you think about it, CAP's base colors on the USAF Style uniform are the shades of USAF Blue and Gray.

[billford1]

The gray slacks will always look screwed up.

Seconded.

I have never been able to figure out why grey was chosen as an "alternative" uniform.

Seriously, Brig General Anderson told me that it was to reflect the gray in the CAP flag, the the change from maroon to gray shoulder marks.  If you think about it, CAP's base colors on the USAF Style uniform are the shades of USAF Blue and Gray.

Sir, Perhaps the gray has some significance with CAP. The Gray epaulets are ok but the gray slacks were ill conceived.