Navy: No more flight suits at Pentagon

[unhappycamper]

Navy: No more flight suits at Pentagon
Staff report
Posted : Sunday Jan 3, 2010 8:28:50 EST

Air Force aviators, a heads-up: Your Navy counterparts who work at the Pentagon can’t wear flight suits anymore.

They learned about the ban in an e-mail from Vice Adm. Samuel Locklear, director of the Navy staff.

Locklear reminded Navy leaders in the National Capital region that flight suits and camouflage uniforms are not to be worn in place of the more common service khakis, said Lt. j.g. Laura Stegherr, a Navy spokeswoman at the Pentagon.

An Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon, Maj. Richelle Dowdell, said she was not aware of any change coming for when and where airmen can wear their flight suits.

Differences in Navy and Air Force uniform practices make an Air Force flight suit ban unlikely.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/01/airforce_navy_flightsuits_010110w/

[Captain Hilts]

1. I was THRILLED to see this article in my NT. It looks so stupid to see them at the Pentagon and on

the street. A friend of mine in the Pentagon works with an AF colonel who opts not to wear his. It's silly and a sign of testosterone poisoning.

[mn9driver]

2. We always wore our zoom bags when there was a chance

we would fly that day, or if we were detted out to somewhere gnarly. Wearing a bag to an office day at the Pentagon? That is absurd.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. So those guys in camo on tv at press conferences and the like..

the pencil pushers who stand around looking soooo manly on tv..can they go back to regular clothes too, I hope?
Testosterone poisoning...love the phrase..so apt.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Somehow, some way, we won World War II with George C. Marshall in his Class A....

And look - NO BADGES!

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/General_George_C._Marshall,_official_military_photo,_1946.JPEG/200px-General_George_C._Marshall,_official_military_photo,_1946.JPEG

Here he is in...a blazer and SHORTS!