plastic encased insignia for senior members without grade

[tebert]

If you are wearing the AF style flight suit as a senior member without grade is there a plastic encased insignia you wear or do you just not wear anything unit you reach the rank of 2nd Lt.

[lordmonar]

You wear nothing....and SM on your Leather Name Patch.

Having said that....I would not bother with the name patch.

No need to spend money for a patch you may only wear 1-2 times.

[Eclipse]

Nametags are like $3 - get two sets and wear your uniform properly.

[a2capt]

Buy one - cover over the spot with the rank on it with electric tape, nicely cut.

When you reach that milestone rank, peel it off.  At least get some use out of it.


Or, get one with no rank and the 'CAP' centered, then you can use that on a flight jacket later. Or leave that on the inside and get the fully labeled one for outside. Or.. whatever.

[lordmonar]

Nametags are like $3 - get two sets and wear your uniform properly.

That would be $8.80 plus shipping and handeling...and if you have a flight jacket that would by times 2.

[Eclipse]

All good ideas...

[tdepp]

What, we can't purchase plastic encased nothings from Vanguard for flightsuits? Bummer.

[Spaceman3750]

What about plastic encased FO/TFO/SFO insignia?

[Al Sayre]

Good luck with that...

[kd8gua]

What about plastic encased FO/TFO/SFO insignia?

That's when an X-Acto knife, masking tape, plastic encased 1st Lt insignia, and dark blue nail polish become your friend. You have to uncase the cased metal insignia (in a nice enough way you can still replace the insignia without the whole thing looking too gawdy), then mask off the specific number of FO stripes, paint the metal bars with the nail polish, then replace the metal bars in their plastic encasements, and sew on. At promotion time, pop them off, take the metal insignia out, nail polish remover or paint thinner will work great, and change the number of stripes!

[Spaceman3750]

Hmm... If that's the case I think I'll either wear none or avoid flight crew activities .

[Eclipse]

What about plastic encased FO/TFO/SFO insignia?

That's when an X-Acto knife, masking tape, plastic encased 1st Lt insignia, and dark blue nail polish become your friend. You have to uncase the cased metal insignia (in a nice enough way you can still replace the insignia without the whole thing looking too gawdy), then mask off the specific number of FO stripes, paint the metal bars with the nail polish, then replace the metal bars in their plastic encasements, and sew on. At promotion time, pop them off, take the metal insignia out, nail polish remover or paint thinner will work great, and change the number of stripes!

Um, yeah...our uniforms are not craft projects.  You'd be better off just not wearing grade.

Or better still, wear a blue flight suit or jumpsuit and wear the much sharper color-matched cloth grade.

[wuzafuzz]

Proposal

Change Senior Member Without Grade to one of the following:

• Senior Member Without Insignia
• Senior Member Without Bling

[MIKE]

Senior Member Without Uniform.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

One thing I've seen some SMWOG's do with the leather patch is get one that says 2LT and cover it with black electrical tape until they actually get their grade.

Back when the AF did the bit with the leather nameplates on BDU's, I saw some who would use a Dymo Labelmaker to make a label of their new grade after being promoted until they actually got a new nameplate made.

[RiverAux]

Having said that....I would not bother with the name patch.

I'm not sure that is an option. 

[tebert]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I think I would rather spend another $10.00 than walk around with black electrical tape on my patch.  Would be the laughing stock of the squadron.

[lordmonar]

Having said that....I would not bother with the name patch.

I'm not sure that is an option.

Sure it's an option.....and no worse then some of the other uniform violations people willing do.  It is no worse the the entire PAWG wearing the wrong T-shirt.....It is no worse then putting electrical tape over your rank or wings.

[RiverAux]

Having said that....I would not bother with the name patch.

I'm not sure that is an option.

Sure it's and option.....and no worse then some of the other uniform violations people willing do.  It is no worse the the entire PAWG wearing the wrong T-shirt.....It is no worse then putting electrical tape over your rank or wings.

Oh, I guess I don't really consider not following the regulations as a legitimate option, but maybe I need to expand my horizons a bit. 

[SarDragon]

What about plastic encased FO/TFO/SFO insignia?

That's when an X-Acto knife, masking tape, plastic encased 1st Lt insignia, and dark blue nail polish become your friend. You have to uncase the cased metal insignia (in a nice enough way you can still replace the insignia without the whole thing looking too gawdy), then mask off the specific number of FO stripes, paint the metal bars with the nail polish, then replace the metal bars in their plastic encasements, and sew on. At promotion time, pop them off, take the metal insignia out, nail polish remover or paint thinner will work great, and change the number of stripes!

There's a slight hitch there - the insignia inside the plastic aren't metal, they are a different flavor of plastic. I wrecked a set of major insignia, and did a little experimenting on them. The guts aren't metal, and can even be fused to the clear plastic, making that surgery difficult to impossible.