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Mandatory Scarves
- Thread starter HackerF15E
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maybe it's because they know that every AF flyer secretly hates them like this guy:
but seriously, what is the deal with the scarf in the AF? is it from the early history of aviation or something, like the brown shoes? but then how did the navy aviators dodge the scarf bullet then? i did a search on the "knower of all things" wikipedia, but it came up empty
but seriously, what is the deal with the scarf in the AF? is it from the early history of aviation or something, like the brown shoes? but then how did the navy aviators dodge the scarf bullet then? i did a search on the "knower of all things" wikipedia, but it came up empty
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Not a pilot (parents stayed together), but yeah, this is about as gay as anything that's came out of the Castro district
Nuzing vill kom klosh too haw Vonderfull zee Germans lookked in zier scarfvs
VIZKRIEG
KILL
Nuzing vill kom klosh too haw Vonderfull zee chermans lookked in zier scarfvs
Fixed it for you. (slight accent note)
That memo doesn’t surprise me. I had two instructor tours in a joint Navy/AF squadron and the OG can be a Nazi about patches. All Navy instructors were ordered by the Deputy OG to remove the American Flag from our flight suits and wear the OG patch in the name of uniformity to stand in formation at the OG change of command. Granted it was nice to be at a change of command ceremony in a flight suit vice chokers, but it was un-American to remove my flag IMHO. Second tour, Navy studs had to wear their class patch in place of the American Flag. No patch should ever replace the American Flag on the flight suit as far as I’m concerned.
Speaking of flight suit issues, our skipper said there's a modification to the uniform regs that's made its way up to the CNO's desk. Long story short is that they would be authorized for wear off-base, but that you'd only be allowed the standard USN patch as your "morale patch" and that everyone would go to wearing black undershirts with the green flight suits and tan undershirts with the desert ones. One of the MOs brought up some good points about organizational clothing vs. uniform clothing and different pots of money, etc. etc. Any other rumblings of a change wrt the flight suit uniform policies out there?
I think it was a remnant of the WWI fighters...they chafed their necks constantly swivelling their heads looking for German planes, and this cut down on the chafage (is that a real word?) I think there was a blurb about it in some recent movie about that as well...Flyboys?
Silly me. I thought they started wearing scarves to keep their neck and face warm. You know, open cockpit and all.
You're both right:
http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/scarves.html
The link includes instructions on how to properly tie your scarf as well
According to the uniform regulations they (class/OG patches) shouldn't. I would have tried to fight it, but as an ENS, I'm sure I'd have been told to shit down and shut up.
http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/scarves.html
The link includes instructions on how to properly tie your scarf as well
Awesome. I'm SO doing that next time I wear my brown leather jacket to work.
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