Air Force unveils new uniform plan

[MarineGrunt]

oh no...dont make me break out the grunt one-liners

Oooooooooooo.... Whattya gonna do? Put on yer bus-driver uniform and run me down with a Greyhound???

 

[Jafar]

Re: Re: ...but the real question is....

I think they stole the Corps' 8 point cover because EVERYONE wishes and dreams they could be in the Corps but 99% of the population is just to big of a p*ssy to actually be in the Corps.

Semper Fi,
Member of the Old Corps - Battle axe and hammer!

You Jarheads are seriously killing me. Having pride in your service is great. Expecting uniformity and having pride in ones personal appearance is great.

Belittling other services because of a presumed superiority they force fed you in boot camp sucks.

Now before you Gyreens start your assault on me keep in mind I claimed the title of Marine for 8 years. Now I've crossed into the Blue, which is probably more offfensive to you than the above statements.

What I'm getting at, don't take yourselves so serious. No one else does.

Besides, MarineGrunt, didn't you cross into the Blue yourself?

Every service has a mission that they do well. If the neandrethals really want to talk tough, how many dead Iraqi's and Al Qada did your service tally up? I'd be willing to bet the pussified, pampered zoomies got about 10 times as many as the fire breathing hard ass Jarheads.

That is, if you want to look at things from the "Old Corps" way of thinking.

 

[MarineGrunt]

Re: Re: Re: ...but the real question is....

You Jarheads are seriously killing me. Having pride in your service is great. Expecting uniformity and having pride in ones personal appearance is great.

Belittling other services because of a presumed superiority they force fed you in boot camp sucks.

Now before you Gyreens start your assault on me keep in mind I claimed the title of Marine for 8 years. Now I've crossed into the Blue, which is probably more offfensive to you than the above statements.

What I'm getting at, don't take yourselves so serious. No one else does.

Besides, MarineGrunt, didn't you cross into the Blue yourself?

Every service has a mission that they do well. If the neandrethals really want to talk tough, how many dead Iraqi's and Al Qada did your service tally up? I'd be willing to bet the pussified, pampered zoomies got about 10 times as many as the fire breathing hard ass Jarheads.

That is, if you want to look at things from the "Old Corps" way of thinking.

I think you need to read my posts above. Again, I am not bashing the AF or anyone in it, besides the yahoo proposing this uniform. I think you need to take a pill and relax a bit.

And yes, FYI I am crossing over to the guard. Did I take any shots at the AF or Guard? No. Did I belittle them, or their missions? No. Did I refer to them as a bunch of pu$$ies? No.

I'll just leave it at that.

 

[wingnutt]

easy there Jafar (wasnt that a disney character name?) MarineGrunt is not the one with the chip on his shoulder, its this guy...

I think they stole the Corps' 8 point cover because EVERYONE wishes and dreams they could be in the Corps but 99% of the population is just to big of a p*ssy to actually be in the Corps.

and as for you...

Oooooooooooo.... Whattya gonna do? Put on yer bus-driver uniform and run me down with a Greyhound???

...ive already acquired one marine hat from a good old fashioned wrestling match when we were in san loius obisbo for JRTC, dont make me come and take yours too

 

[wms]

The troops have no choice in the matter, just like when General Mcpeak was Chief of Staff. All it takes is one crazy *!#% to ruin it for everybody else.

Or the Creech brown that was splashed over every AF building... every six months.

Or washing rocks at Nellis because they were dusty, and separating the red ones from the white ones, etc., etc.

 

[MarineGrunt]

...ive already acquired one marine hat from a good old fashioned wrestling match when we were in san loius obisbo for JRTC, dont make me come and take yours too

Yikes... as I'm wetting my trousers and running away, I think I'll sing my favorite cadence...

"Air Force, Air Force, I'm in doubt,
Why are your pot bellies stickin out?
Is it beer or is it wine?
Or is it just lack of PT time?"

 

[wingnutt]

*sigh* ...you're alright Grunt, even though you got my branch wrong id love to throw down my favorite air force joke...

Back in 1947 the government was experimenting with a Marine's ability to complete his mission after suffering a serious head injury.

They took a well trained, physically-fit, hard-charging Cpl. and told him to row a canoe up a river. The Cpl. jumped in the canoe, started rowing up stream with ease and began singing, "From the Halls of Montezuma, To the Shores of Tripoli."

The next day a team of surgeons performed a frontal lobotomy on the Marine. Again, they took him to the river and said' "row."

Again the Cpl. jumped in, took a second to find his seat, started rowing with a little difficulty and began singing. It took a little more effort this time, "From Da Hallls of Montayuma, Two Da Stores in Tripoli." But he made it up river and completed the task.

The next day the surgeons removed the majority of the Marines brain and took him to the river.

The Cpl. jumped in, fell out, and began swimming up stream, singing "For Da Hails of Monte puma, to 'e hall inn monopoly." But again, he made it up river and completed his task.

The next day the surgeons removed the remainder of the Marines brain. He had no brain what-so-ever and no way to think logically. They took him to the river. He fell out of the car and began singing, "Here we go, Into the wild blue yonder...."

Yikes... as I'm wetting my trousers and running away, I think I'll sing my favorite cadence...

in order that you can adjust your cadence accordingly, ill tell you that i was in the 101st Airborne Division. to further your imagination, i was attached to the Marines back in the early 90's to teach them how to run a bulldozer. ill refrain from telling the stories, but i will close with reminding you of the 5 most dangerous things you will ever hear in the Corp...

1-A Private saying, "I learned this in Basic Training..."
2-A Sergeant saying, "Trust me, sir..."
3-A Second Lieutenant saying, "Based on my experience..."
4-A Captain saying, "I was just thinking..."
5-A Sergeant Major chuckling, "Watch this s hit..."

...if you're ever in dallas, look me up and ill buy you a beer and tell you the stories of teaching a marine how to dig a hole with something other than an e-tool

 

[MarineGrunt]

...if you're ever in dallas, look me up and ill buy you a beer and tell you the stories of teaching a marine how to dig a hole with something other than an e-tool

Sounds like a deal. I'll bring my cover!

 

[jarhead]

You guys are cracking me up! I love it......keep it up, and I may give you a few of my old anecdotes about inter-service shots at each other.

 

[njcapt]

If that were the case, wouldn't they adopt something like the uniform worn by the Vatican's Swiss Guards?

(Now that looks sharp! )

The only places that Swiss cammo would be effective is at a renaissance fair or a gay pride parade.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Wang Chung]

Yeah, whatever happened to that new A.F. dress uniform that came out in the mid-Nineties? The Pan Am uniform? Did that ever make it into service?

That thing was being phased in when I began my enlistment. I was Mr. Cutting Edge because I dropped the cash and bought one!

In basic training, the new rule was all BDUs had to have the "Aircrew Style Name Patch" on them instead of the name tapes...so that's what we got issued. Sure enough, about a year later they started phasing BACK the nametapes on BDUs. The mid 1990's kept kept the base uniform tailor ladies busy.

And of course, when you wore the medical hospital white uniform, you had to wear the camo BDU hat with it! I guess that was the regulation, but we sure looked like tools.

I was an AF medic, but I spent a good part of my enlistment working with Army guys in an Army trauma center. Some of them took their shots at AF guys (all in good fun), but when you talk to them one-on-one, they all admit that if they had to do it all over, they would have gone AF.

Wang

 

[jetexas]

I'm glad they decided against the "sailor" style dress uniforms. They looked mighty silly.

 

[jarhead]

There is an old joke about the Navy enlisted seaman ranks dress uniforms. I forgot the punch line, but the question had to do with "why do sailor's uniforms have all those buttons on the front of their pants"? I can't recall the punch line.

Anybody?