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Regular Joe
 
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I keep hearing the leadership saying they want feedback on the new camo. Has anyone seen an official website for doing so?
I saw another set in the clinic today. These things look worse than what you've heard. I envisioned a normal, Vietnam tigerstripe pattern that was just a tinge more blue than black. Nope. The damn thing's blue! It's something my daughter would pick up at the mall and I'd laugh about. I think the wrong people are being tested for drugs...
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I agree, it is really a stark difference standing next to a woodland BDU. I am TDY in Europe at an AB where the uniform is being tested. I also don't like the fact that the AF wears about 500 different types of head gear. They waste way too much $$$ on stupid stuff like that, but definitely have a better soldier care program. The camo baseball hats make no sense, the ones with colors and patches are worse, even the CMSgt of USAFE wears a black baseball camp with USAFE embroidered in gold letters. The newest headgear to show up hear is the black patrol cap with cat eyes and a white tab on the front for the unit (735 LRS). The other thing is that they can't handle saluting officers in berets. For the most part, only security forces wear berets at most bases, and they have few officers, so everyone assumes enlisted, and ignores. Put on a BDU hat with rank, salutes from across the street.
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Regular Joe
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Yeah, the hat thing has been out of control for decades. There's no other unit on this earth I'd rather serve with, but the big red baseball caps we wear in our BDUs is a bit much. Kind of makes a Blue tigerstripe camo not seem as dumb after all. At least some of us are smart enough to leave the goofy Elmer Fudd hats at home when we deploy overseas. I've never seen the black patrol cap combination, but whoever authorized that is clearly violating regulations unless they've rewritten them again. The regs at one time specified you couldn't add patches or lettering to BDU caps.
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They are adopting new boots too.   
Seriously folks. An unofficial AF forum has some threads about the new uniform. Here it is http://www.afforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=51
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SF DEMO,
That black patrol cap usually signifies an instructor for deployment operations courses. There are a couple of regional training centers that use them to distinguish from the studs. If you are at Ramstein, then those boys with the black hats are working out of the CTS, a course that includes CE, EOD.
davehal,
The website should be ready soon, if not already. We have a SMSgt in our unit that is currently testing and he will be able to give me specifics
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do!--Lewis Cass
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