Don't tell Jessica.
Posted on 10/19/2007 2:09:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Navy in the early 60’s was dress blues/whites off base, no undress or dungarees.
My dad was career military (Airborne) and his fatigues were always starched and ironed. You could cut butter with the creases. See your reflection in his spit shined jump boots.
Damn right he wore them off base.
Airborne All The Way!!
I guess.
All I know is that - living in San Antonio as I do - I see soldiers and airmen every day in various uniforms.
I’m proud to see them, and I’m sure they take great pride in doing their jobs as they proudly wear their unifirms.
I can’t imagine a Marine would show disrespect for himself or the Corps by being “out of uniform”.
Am I to guess that Marines have problems the other armed forces don’t?
Same here.
“...Air Force base but far enough away that the guys feel there is no need for covers or military bearing.”
Air Force wears uniforms?
/s/ Heldog, USMC Vet
I was active duty from ‘92 to ‘97, and we weren’t allowed then, either.
Was that way when I was in,,probably still in the regs.
That is how it always was when I first enlisted in 1964. I still can’t get used to BDUs in the air terminal. If they are coming back from or deploying to OCONUS, fine, but otherwise, Class B minimum or civies.
What is the big deal? We were not allowed off-base in utilities (what we called them then) under any circumstance when not on duty in the 60’s.
I met Chesty Puller at Quantico in 1969. In this long life of mine, I haven’t met anyone whose mere presence was a impressive as that man. I hope you can live up to the name(just kidding, no one could)
The thought of being of base in fatigues just doesn’t seem Marine.
1961-1981, We could only travel to and from home.
NO getting out of car for any reason.
I don’t understand your problem with this order.
Thank God for the Marines.
As an old army EM, I never knew that there was such a thing as:
“excessive cleavage”
Hell no! I fought war pretty well, but there ain't no Navy Crosses in my closet.
Since when does a Marine have to be ashamed to look like a Marine?!
I get sick and tired of the PC Liberal Pukes being offended.
Its the same sort of crap they try to force Hunter Safety Instructors to teach to young hunters...Never wear hunting cloths to the market or Restaurant, some liberal puke anti-hunter might be offended!
I say let them pukes be offended if the want! They can’t whoop nobody!
The Army wears their new ACUs everywhere.
That’s the point, in camis or fatigues, a Marine can look just as sloppy as an Air Force Airman (okay, maybe not quite as sloppy unless he slept in his clothes for a week).
This is not something new, it goes with Marine tradition to not only be the proud , the few, but to look it too.
This is stupid. At least the Navy is smart enough to allow its personnel to fill their car up on gas while on the way to base. Does it really hurt the military bearing of your service that much if you have a servicemember who is following uniform standards that goes into a gas station for 30 seconds and pays for gas?
This new rule was the old rule in 80-84.
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