Silver Braid On the Flight Cap

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I honestly have to say, I was unaware of the stipulation that as a SMWOG you wear the enlisted hat. I was in violation of this for about two weeks while waiting for my 2nd LT paperwork to go through, and was in blues at least twice in that short period. I feel bad now .

No reason to feel bad, for the very cause that Captain Tomasone pointed out.

Sometimes 39-1 is as clear as mud.

[davidsinn]

I think pretty much everyone commits an inadvertent uniform boo-boo at least once.

If you haven't, then you haven't been a member long.

[ol'fido]

... I can see the purchase of an item that will be used for less than six months to be a waste.

Seems to me that this is a non-issue for squadrons with cadets.  Since cadets wear the blue braid flight cap, it shouldn't be too difficult to find a spare, clean, and serviceable flight cap for a new SM to use for a few months until they are promoted.

Unless you are like me. My hat size varies from 7 3/8 to 7 3/4 depending on the make and model of the hat and whether my wife has told me what she thinks of me that day or not. You don't find a lot of hats that size lying about supply rooms. As Drill Sergeant Daniels said at Ft. Benning lo those 22 years ago, "Beat your face, YOU BIG WATER HEAD, I know how to cure what ails you! Exercise! Exercise! And more exercise!

[bosshawk]

Drill Sgt Daniels probably had a lot of other bits of sage advice for you and the other guys in your Basic Training Company.  You probably remember at least some of them.

I, fortunately, never went through Basic Training, but I do remember what a lot of NCOs told me as a young Lt.

[ol'fido]

I do remember vividly him showing us the petroleum jelly trick to put the camo sticks on our face. Bug juice works good too.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Drill Sgt Daniels probably had a lot of other bits of sage advice for you and the other guys in your Basic Training Company.  You probably remember at least some of them.

Which are quite probably not repeatable here.

Anyone who has been to lovely Lackland knows the colourful turn of phrases that the MTI's can come up with.

[Defender]

"Colorful turn of phrases?"   Well.  That's ONE way to put it!

[Tim Medeiros]

I can't wait to find out some of those colorful turn of phrases personally.

[PHall]

I can't wait to find out some of those colorful turn of phrases personally.

"Officially" they can't use them anymore. "Officially"...