BDU Sleeves

[Monty]

I feel like I am in philosophy 101 again.

Either Phil101 or Interpersonal Communications 018! 

In all seriousness, command is a lot of work and I (personally) cringe when I see people's CAP experience being led by commanders that do the job by the seat of their pants/trousers or fall upon life experience instead of training AND life experience.

Whoa, there's my soapbox; I had wondered where it had gone... 

[lordmonar]

My rule of thumb is.....in formation everyone should be the same.  With that said....the initial inspection of a normal meeting night, I do not make an issue of it.  Some cadets like them up and some like them down.  If we were doing a parade or some sort where we wanted to more formal we would make them match.

On active duty we also have to contend with the tattoo issue.  If you have a tattoo covering more than 25% of the exposed skin (IIRC) then you must wear your sleeves down.  That means even if the command decided to wear them up you would not be able to do so.

Therefore....in formation we usually go sleeves down.

Some bases have a sleeves up window (usually May through October) where you have the option but just as many bases have no policy on it at all.