The King Is Dead, Long Live The King

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Nowhere did she mention the development of new uniforms, let alone express a desire of what color they should be.

I don't know where you get the idea that new uniforms are in the pipeline.

The CSU was killed, ostensibly to reduce the number of uniforms we have, though it would have been just as easy to kill off the G/W/blazer.  So I didn't buy that excuse, though they didn't ask me.

General Courter's ICL/PowerPoint reinforced the status of the G/W/blazer and said absolutely nothing about any new uniform design.

[Hardshell Clam]

We have a lot to learn from Major Tony Nelson. Remember how he was compromised into revealing every facet of his his Air Force career and secret info to a hot blond chick with admitted ties to Baghdad? At the time of the series, Iraq was nearly a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and armed and equipped by Russia. Its clear that Major Nelson fell into the classic "Honey Trap" used by the Soviets by way of their Iraqi agency Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma' Directorate 4 ( How many hot blond English speaking Iraqi's are there?) Obviously, Jeannie used mind altering drugs and the promise of sex as  way of controlling Major Nelson, and like any good agent handler, she played him like a fish. He even roped his over-sexed best friend Roger Healey into his hapless conspiracy, with unfulfilled bribes of sex, money, and power. A classic intelligence operation. He may have looked good in the old Service Coat, but someone should have double-tapped  Major Nelson before he could further compromise our Country's security! It was a dark story of betrayal and ruin. Of course, Barbara Eden was Smokin' hot........

Major Lord

Yes, a classic case study taught in my 97B MOS school!

[Major Lord]

Fort Holabird?

Major Lord

[Hardshell Clam]

Fort Holabird?

Major Lord

Closed prior to my enlistment. After that MI was in AZ...
My unit was the 163rd MI (C), III Corps, West Ft Hood, TX. Did I pass?

[Skydude61]

This is a question again for all of those who wear the jackets....
is there an effective way of dealing with
1) a collar that won't stay sharp and creased even after a clean and press
2) those nasty litttle threads that the embroidered USAF insignia left on the sleeve that give us all these little fuzzy puffs....

[Major Lord]

Fort Holabird?

Major Lord

Closed prior to my enlistment. After that MI was in AZ...
My unit was the 163rd MI (C), III Corps, West Ft Hood, TX. Did I pass?

No need to be defensive, it was not a test-thats the other guy.  Its just to cold in that area of the world for me. If I was testing you, I would asked the color of the boat house at Hereford. 

Major Lord

[Persona non grata]

RED and it was not really a boat house!

[Hardshell Clam]

Fort Holabird?

Major Lord

Closed prior to my enlistment. After that MI was in AZ...
My unit was the 163rd MI (C), III Corps, West Ft Hood, TX. Did I pass?

No need to be defensive, it was not a test-thats the other guy.  Its just to cold in that area of the world for me. If I was testing you, I would asked the color of the boat house at Hereford. 

Major Lord

No worries, and I don't remember what color it was Mr. DeNiro!   

[davedove]

We have a lot to learn from Major Tony Nelson. Remember how he was compromised into revealing every facet of his his Air Force career and secret info to a hot blond chick with admitted ties to Baghdad? At the time of the series, Iraq was nearly a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and armed and equipped by Russia. Its clear that Major Nelson fell into the classic "Honey Trap" used by the Soviets by way of their Iraqi agency Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-A'ma' Directorate 4 ( How many hot blond English speaking Iraqi's are there?) Obviously, Jeannie used mind altering drugs and the promise of sex as  way of controlling Major Nelson, and like any good agent handler, she played him like a fish. He even roped his over-sexed best friend Roger Healey into his hapless conspiracy, with unfulfilled bribes of sex, money, and power. A classic intelligence operation. He may have looked good in the old Service Coat, but someone should have double-tapped  Major Nelson before he could further compromise our Country's security! It was a dark story of betrayal and ruin. Of course, Barbara Eden was Smokin' hot........

Major Lord

She even managed to get Majors Nelson and Healey to discredit a fellow officer, the unfortunate Dr. Bellows.  Oh, the depths of her plot are astounding.

I am sure as soon as they finished gaslighting Doctor Bellows, they would have been able to pin all their active espionage on him, and he would commit "suicide", since Psychiatrist's have a tendency to do this.....brilliant!

Major Lord

It goes even deeper.  Jeannie also used a fellow operative, her "sister", to act as an obvious foe in order to further gain the trust of her targets.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Cripes-a-mighty, look what I did in mentioning Tony Nelson...

[Hardshell Clam]

Cripes-a-mighty, look what I did in mentioning Tony Nelson...

Indeed! Its funny how we would look upon a comedy with a middle east connection now vs. then. Back in the 70s we all thought they wore the traditional garb and still rode camels (all the time). Man and I getting old!

[ColonelJack]

Welp ... I wore my CSU for the last time to our unit's annual banquet this week.

Once I get it dry-cleaned, I'm shipping the jacket to Jim Shaw for his CAP Museum. 

Even though I don't need one any more, I'm still most distressed that the NEC killed what was a perfectly good, USAF-approved uniform out of sheer terror of anything potentially offending our Big Brother Blue.

Oh, well.  Time, at last, to move on.

So long, CSU.  You were a good idea whose time had, apparently, not yet come.

Jack

[Private Investigator]

Maroon epaulets   

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Even though I don't need one any more, I'm still most distressed that the NEC killed what was a perfectly good, USAF-approved uniform out of sheer terror of anything potentially offending our Big Brother Blue.

Quite possibly the most inane, unreasoned decision I have seen CAP make in my nearly 18 years of service.

It is incomprehensible to me, and of course no-one will tell the plebian membership why, such a perfectly good uniform sanctioned by the Air Force was deep-sixed.

So long, CSU.  You were a good idea whose time had, apparently, not yet come.

Jack

Or perhaps the wrong person (the Generalissimo) came up with the idea and NHQ is trying to purge all vestiges of him.

[CAP_truth]

I agree that CAP needs a corporate military-style UNIFORM, but Big blue will not go along with that. I am tired of seeing polo shirts being worn as a military uniform. All senior members should be in some type of corporate military-style uniform, ALL, This way CAP is part of the RM but still seperate and different. The CSU proposed by HSRN is a start but needs some work done. I would love to be part of the uniform committee on this issue.

[Spaceman3750]

Dear uniform committee,

I rather like the polo. Please don't take it away.

Signed,

Someone who appreciates a little bit of simplicity in a very complex organization

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I agree that CAP needs a corporate military-style UNIFORM, but Big blue will not go along with that. I am tired of seeing polo shirts being worn as a military uniform. All senior members should be in some type of corporate military-style uniform, ALL, This way CAP is part of the RM but still seperate and different. The CSU proposed by HSRN is a start but needs some work done. I would love to be part of the uniform committee on this issue.

First, what constitutes "military-style" is just as vague as the bloody stupid "low light/at-a-distance" thing we have to live with now.  It's just that NHQ seems to be violently allergic to anything except grey, and thinks they have to stay away from any shade of blue.  The USAF has control on their shades of blue uniforms, but they do not have a trademark on everything blue!

Using the German Bundeswehr as an example:



The Bundesheer officer on the far left would probably be more acceptable to a CAP uniform design, simply because it is grey, while the three Bundesluftwaffe officers' uniforms, even though of near-identical cut, and a cut and colour nothing like the USAF, would be out of any consideration, simply because they are blue (grey-blue, really).

I don't have a problem with the polo shirt per se, even though I've never owned one and probably never will.  I do have a problem with members using it as their only uniform.

The CSU with General Courter's modifications should have logically been perfectly acceptable...but logic doesn't come into it.

[Eclipse]

Less than 12 hours left of the CSU (for those in HIWG, about 1/2 that for the rest of us).

Raise a glass and then light the fires!

[davidsinn]

Less than 12 hours left of the CSU (for those in HIWG, about 1/2 that for the rest of us).

Raise a glass and then light the fires!

You got caught hotlinking.

[Eclipse]

Weird - it looked ok on mine - must have been the cache.

I fixed it, and this one is more appropriate anyway, and gray for Cyborg!