The King Is Dead, Long Live The King

[Eclipse]

I wore my CSU for what will likely be the last time yesterday for a staff meeting and holiday party.

[AngelWings]

Are you going to miss it?

[Eclipse]

Are you going to miss it?

Considering the initial expense, and the fact that a significant portion of our membership no longer have a uniform
that fulfills our mission (unless that mission is Olympic judge or real estate agent)...

Yes.

[RADIOMAN015]

Are you going to miss it?

Considering the initial expense, and the fact that a significant portion of our membership no longer have a uniform
that fulfills our mission (unless that mission is Olympic judge or real estate agent)...

Yes.

Just take off the CAP buttons and you can use it to work as door man in Chicagoland :angel:  I guess that's what happens when anyone is an early adopter of ANY new CAP uniform    
RM

[Extremepredjudice]

I wore my CSU for what will likely be the last time yesterday for a staff meeting and holiday party.

So you are in blues now? 

Congrats sir!

[Eclipse]

I wore my CSU for what will likely be the last time yesterday for a staff meeting and holiday party.

So you are in blues now? 

Congrats sir!

Funny.

I guess that's what happens when anyone is an early adopter of ANY new CAP uniform    

Early adopter?  The CSU was approved in 2006.

[RickFranz]

I will get to wear mine one more time, then off come the ribbons and badges which will be placed in a display case since that will be the only place they will be able to be seen.  (I believe in the 2 badges are enough on the gray/white uniform.)

[Ned]

Uniforms come, uniforms go.

If you look in the back of my closet, you might well find cotton fatigues, khaki shade 1505s, a cool 1549 shirt, light blue jumpsuits, light blue shirts without epaulets, old style service dress with exterior pockets, lightweight poplin jackets, and the odd Guyabarra shirt.

Every single one purchased at personal expense for CAP.

The single constant in CAP uniforms is change over time.  Every single one of our uniforms will become obsolete at some point and represent a loss to our members.  It is always sad to see a beloved uniform pass.

I sure miss that 1549 shirt.

[SarDragon]

I sure miss that 1549 shirt.

Amen. 

[NIN]

I sure miss that 1549 shirt.

Amen. 1549 was the so-called "Combination 3", right?

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I never had the chance to wear it, except for briefly with the blue epaulettes and nameplate.

I've still got a brushed-silver nameplate with "CIVIL AIR PATROL" on it that's never been out of its little plastic tube.

I suppose the upside, if there is one, is that the uniform was killed before I spent money on the service coat.

That uniform was handled badly from the getgo; from the way the Generalissimo introduced it, to the way it was killed after the Air Force had expressed changes they wanted to see made and CAP responded to them!   I'm not sure which was handled the worst; the way it was introduced or the way it was killed, but nobody asked me, or any of the membership that I know of.

I'm somewhere near the borderline of wearing the blues right now.  I've got a physical scheduled for after the first of the year.  I'll know then whether or not I can wear a uniform that has some colour to it or if I'll have to look like a photo negative.

[James Shaw]

If we have anyone willing to donate one to the CAP National Collection, I am willing to take one.

PM for address.

[jimmydeanno]

I kind of like uniform obsolescence.  It forces the replacement of otherwise unserviceable uniforms that people refuse to replace.  Like the see through BDUs, the blues shirts that have become white, etc.

[Major Lord]

Our Country has been divided between the "Blue" and the "Gray" before. It met with somewhat mixed results in 1861, but perhaps we can avoid bloodshed this time.....I find the irony intriguing....or maybe I am just feeling Blue......

Major Lord

[Eclipse]

I kind of like uniform obsolescence.  It forces the replacement of otherwise unserviceable uniforms that people refuse to replace.  Like the see through BDUs, the blues shirts that have become white, etc.

No problem when there is an alternative.

[Persona non grata]

I had no problem parting with mine.....a natural disater destroyed it.  It was a very sharp jacket I do say.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

No problem when there is an alternative.

The grey-only zealots would try and tell us there is an alternative...the bloody awful IMO blazer combo...but they would be incorrect.

[DakRadz]

Our Country has been divided between the "Blue" and the "Gray" before. It met with somewhat mixed results in 1861, but perhaps we can avoid bloodshed this time.....I find the irony intriguing....or maybe I am just feeling Blue......

Major Lord

Blue truly won, while Gray stayed in nay-saying denial convinced of impending doom for years afterward.

Yep, sounds familiar to me!

(This is the part where, at bivouac, the cadet officers would raise their hands to indicate a "joke" on the part of the ES class teacher)

[Major Lord]

Our Country has been divided between the "Blue" and the "Gray" before. It met with somewhat mixed results in 1861, but perhaps we can avoid bloodshed this time.....I find the irony intriguing....or maybe I am just feeling Blue......

Major Lord

Blue truly won, while Gray stayed in nay-saying denial convinced of impending doom for years afterward.

Yep, sounds familiar to me!

(This is the part where, at bivouac, the cadet officers would raise their hands to indicate a "joke" on the part of the ES class teacher)

Its just a metaphor, who would really believe that an organization based in Alabama would advocate slavery? Oooooooh....never mind....... The larger irony in my mind is the very fact of CAP identifying itself as being "Gray", that is to say, being neither black or white, good or evil, good or bad, clear or obfuscated; Or possibly just dominated by the elderly. For a metaphor, I find blue to be a better symbol: True Blue. Air Force Blue. Wild Blue Yonder.  Blue in fact, is a color, Gray is not.

Major Lord

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Blue in fact, is a color, Gray is not.
Major Lord

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Which is what I've been getting at all along!!!