Calling all Branches! What traditions can your branch, or the military as a whole, do without?

Again no Coast Guard

1. Wearing work or special purpose uniform to do an office job. Tradition started to show unity with war fighters after 9/11. Has resulted in office workers looking sloppy at best. No practical reason a finance clerk or wing staff officer can’t wear service uniform to work most days.
2. Officer aircrew. The Air Force requires pilots and some other aircrew to be officers. They must have a bachelors degree to be commissioned. My experience as a pilot and pilot training instructor shows that having a degree and commission have little effect on a person’s ability to fly an aircraft. Air Force should restructure force to include warrant officer pilots for manned and unmanned aircraft using the Army Flight warrant officer model. Save a lot of personnel cost.

once upon a time Enlisted men officially couldn't read, it might have been true - and as such you couldn't just give them their orders, you had to read it to them. Some of the ceremonies by all means for recognition and all that - But All of Them? All the Time?

Stop saying" there is no such thing as a stupid question"

In Germany we had "right arm night". On right arm night we would go bowling and anyone who outranked you, in your squad all the way up to the commander, had to buy you a drink. I was an E-2 when I first went to germany. I think I got 8 free drinks that night.
This was an awesome tradition that should never be done away with.

Once I was a CW4 I directed the QM branch. From Europe. Ask Tommie Mortimer

Once you make SFC you can call branch

Call me gunney. Call me chief. Navy I outrank you E9

Stop calling me Mr booze. Where do you get beer on deployment you SSG supply sergeant.

The fact they call me a QM and never went to war. Yes I did south korea 1970