Another nail in the coffin of Old-School Naval Avaition..

[MIDNJAC]

I never noticed a difference between tan and green bags when I was doing the seasonal change. Then again, it was 70 and sunny/partly cloudy 350 days out of the year there Seriously though, wasn't much different on those rare hot days then green bags in Merids or oceana on a hot day. That and I only have one pair of tan since I lent my other to a rag buddy and never got it back. Will probably be getting better use with him over afghan than me on the beach back in VA so whatever

 

[kmac]

In the T-34, the tan bags were appreciably cooler than the green ones down in the Corpus summer. The material feels thinner too although I don't know why.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Nothing short of swim trunks and no shirt would make flying wieners in corpus feel cool maybe filling the entire cockpit with ice

 

[phrogpilot73]

I personally think the tan bags for the summer time are retarded. Why? Have you seen a crew chief after he's done a DNT/turnaround in his tan flight suit? It's black now, not tan... Try doing a static display after they've done 1.5-2 hours of flight time, to include aft station checks. Yup, the green is much better looking after that, and doesn't make our hard working young guys look like a bag of ass (even though they aren't).

 

[CommodoreMid]

After Djibouti I never really noticed a difference between green and tan, but I definitely loved the desert boots. They were a lot lighter and more comfortable in the heat.

 

[pilot_man]

I really care less about the small BS. As mentioned already, I can go out in town in a bag. Am I going to wear the standard American Flag? Maybe. Maybe I will wear an oval patched Merican flag behind a Rhino. There are soooo many things we can do now. Being pissed about the small stuff, really? When has the JOPA ever caved completely to any reg? Wearing bags out in town is a Huge win for us all. Let the games begin.

I don't see anyone pissed off about the new regs. Just questioning the reasoning behind some of the rules. Like JO's should be doing. Yes I'm ecstatic that I can eat in town in a bag now. But does it really matter which patches I have on which sleeve. I understand the no shit hots, no tan inconus. But we aren't going to be uniform. Your patches won't look like mine and the locals won't notice, or more importantly give a shit.

I'll agree with The Harrier Dude. If it's hot, it's hot. Doesn't matter what color bag your in. Tan bags look shittier easier. That reg seems pretty vague as well. I would say that 102 in Fallon with no humidity is way cooler feeling than 98 in Pensacola with 99% humidity.

 

[707guy]

After Djibouti I never really noticed a difference between green and tan, but I definitely loved the desert boots. They were a lot lighter and more comfortable in the heat.

Great - drag footwear into the discussion...

 

[ea6bflyr]

I don't see anyone pissed off about the new regs. Just questioning the reasoning behind some of the rules. Like JO's should be doing. Yes I'm ecstatic that I can eat in town in a bag now. But does it really matter which patches I have on which sleeve. I understand the no shit hots, no tan inconus. But we aren't going to be uniform. Your patches won't look like mine and the locals won't notice, or more importantly give a shit.

On a positive note, at least the new regs don't detail the color of socks and underwear.

-ea6bflyr

 

[707guy]

I would say that 102 in Fallon with no humidity is way cooler feeling than 98 in Pensacola with 99% humidity.

Had the T-Birds on my ramp last September. First couple of days were 90's and high humidity. One of them remarked to me "I don't know how you guys work in this shit..." I'm thinking dude you live in the freakin desert...must be something to that "dry heat" thing.

 

[Renegade One]

Can we all just "take a knee"...put our hands together in the middle of the circle...bow our heads...and repeat after me: "Nothing senior aviation leadership ever does, even if it's done for my morale...will ever be good enough for me, or address every fucking thing that I think is important. SO SAY WE ALL!"
[Pop Culture reference: Battlestar Gallactica]

 

[robav8r]

R-1, be careful now, your cynicism & sarcasm are very similar to another "old salt" who left these boards in a huff !!! Something about things changing and remaining the same, etc . . . . . .

 

[statesman]

I for one am happy we will be able to walk around in the bag without a SWO or CPO or anyone else for that matter, being able to say shit about it.

That said, I would still trade loosened regs for squadron colored T-Shirts, and loosened regs on patches.

The VP community (or at least the Jax side of the VP community) has interpreted the new patch regs to mean that right shoulder patches have to be positional (i.e. PPC, IP, TACCO, etc) in nature. Which means no more awesome subversive patches.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Eh, I think that depends on your command. Mine could care less, unless the wing has dictated some kind of awesomeness that I get to look forward to coming home.

 

[kmac]

Wy do people have such a tough time with grammar? This left-shoulder/right-shoulder discussion of patches isn't difficult if one has even a simple understanding of word choice and relative position in a sentence. There doesn't need to be any sea-lawyering (by armies or not) with the way it is written. I don't understand... Does anyone care to inform me why this is seemingly complicated by some folks (be it CPOs, SWOs, or P-3 guys)?

 

[jollygreen07]

Because they live to over-complicate everything?