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Wore my summer whites for the first time in 8-10 years. The uniform was fine, and the shoes looked OK. Never occurred to me that the polish would have dried out. This is what they looked like after the drill weekend. Oh well. Guess I'll try cleaning them down to bare leather with saddle soap and then building up a new layer of polish. Anyone else have some colorful "uniform failure" stories to share?
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During a change of command one summer on the deck of the USS MISSOURI, I moved from the parade rest and the heels of my white shoes, stayed cemented to the nonskid, and my shoes did not. Had to do the rest of the ceremony without heels on either of my shoes.
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CDR (Join to see), I was once a Tactical Officer at OCS (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away). An officer candidate rolled out one morning wearing two left boots (how or why, I'll never know)! Needless to say, we were merciless to the poor soul. We made him wear them all day, and every time another Tactical Officer saw him, he'd end up doing more push ups!
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This wasn't my fail, but I was the one who pointed it out to the victim(?). Standing squadron inspection back in 78', summer whites. I was with my division when I looked over to Admin Division and noticed something looked wrong with our PN1. Took me a few seconds and I realized he had his name tag and ribbons reversed. I discreetly caught his eye and nodded down to my chest. He looked at his chest and after a second realized what he had done. Yes, that crestfallen look of an experienced E-6 making a mistake. At least he was prepared when the CO stood to look at him and asked about it. This happened when I was PO3.
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I started my career in the Army and then after a break in service joined the Air National Guard. From there, I went into the Air Force Reserves. Apparently, I never paid much attention uniform regulations for dress uniforms. One day, I show up for work and find out its "blues Monday." I rush back to my room to change from my BDU's into blues. Prior to that I never had to wear my short sleeve blue uniform. I walked around for an hour before the SMSgt informed me that I had the wrong t-shirt on (a regular collar instead of a V-neck) and the wrong name tag (silver instead of blue). I felt like an idiot, but I am an expert on the uniform now as I consult the AFI's on a regular basis before I put on anything Air Force.
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CDR Robert Getty, I once neglected to check if the tailor had placed my blue trousers under the ASU jacket. They had not. My presence at the ball, was shortened cuz I was disgusted to wear Khaki's when everyone was in Blues!
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Made it to PT formation with my PT pants on backwards once. I've never made it to formation with my tshirt on backwards, but it's been real close once or twice. Also put my wrong dress shoes on with ASUs once. Didn't notice till it was too late. Fortunately nobody else noticed either.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS As in some random black shoes that happened to be in my closet.
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After Desert Storm, my Battery was in an assembly area. We would be there for a few weeks. Our uniforms were still BDUs as we did not get issued the "chocolate chips" uniform. Well our Battalion CSM shows up in the "chocolate chips" to show them off and that he had them. He had sewn on the US Army and his name on the wrong sides. Once we pointed it out to him. He turned and got out of our AO with a purpose!
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Graduation ceremony out of basic. First time in formation, we step off and march about thirty feet before the Soldier behind me missteps and scuffs up my new shiny shoes. I blame them because they did it to someone else on the way back. Aw privates, good times.
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