Class B minimum requirements

[davedove]

I suppose it doesn't - but at some point it simply is, what it is, and we should all get over it.

People using an incorrect term, especially one that create confusion, should be actively corrected, but if they persist, whatever.

That is the best approach.  No matter how hard anyone tries to get everyone to use the official names for things, nicknames and slang are going to creep in, no matter what the source.  It's only natural and happens everywhere, not just in CAP.

In CAP, we get people from all the different services, different civilian occupations, different age groups, and occasionally other countries.  There is no way everyone is going to have the same frames of reference.

This even happens in the military, and they have the advantage of processing their members through an intensive indoctrination.

Sure, try to correct things, but don't have a stroke if it doesn't work.

[Gunner C]

From the 1968 CAPM 39-1:

Combination 1: Lightweight and heavyweight blue service uniform

Combination 2: Heavyweight blue service uniform with blue flannel shirt

Combination 3: Heavyweight blue service trousers with blue flannel shirt and lightweight blue wool/polyester service trousers with blue wool/polyester shirt

Combination 4: Tan service uniform

Combination 5: Tan service shirt with bernuda shorts

Combination 6: The lightweight and heavyweight blue service uniforms may be worn with white shirt and black bow tie as a semiformal dress uniform

I was close!  Not bad for 41 years.