Posted on Feb 22, 2014
Spouses/dependents wearing your uniform components in public?
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We have all seen it, spouses wearing their "sponsors" pt jacket, fleece jacket etc while walking around in public. I would really like to know why it is that "YOU" as the service member allow your spouse to wear a part of your uniform in public. Do you not have any pride in your uniform or your profession, or do you just not care that they do it? I would never let my wife wear my PT Jacket or anything else of mine that is essentially INITIAL ISSUE OR TA-50 in public. If she wants to support what I do and it is cold out, I'd get her an Army hoodie, not strip my name tapes off and let her walk around in MY Army issued fleece jacket. There is a discussion about Soldiers walking around in uniform after COB and "how wrong that is". So why do people think this it is OK to let their spouse wear their uniform and announce "my family is in the Army" or "give me special attention". And knowing that dependents are REALLY not so much subject to 670-1/ UCMJ in that aspect, is there any input as to what can be done about it besides walking away disgusted.<br>
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DA Pam 670-1
Posted 12 y ago
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This question popped back up in my e-mail digest. I revisited my original response. I have a slightly different take now.
I seriously don't care. If it makes the spouse, dependent, family member, boy/girlfriend happy and the Soldier doesn't care, why should I? They're not guilty of stolen valor. They're wearing something that associates them with their loved ones military service. It's a symbol of pride, of a common culture, and the concept of the Citizen Soldier drawn from the common populace rather than a separate warrior caste.
So, I wholeheartedly support pink haired girls in ponytails wearing the APFU jacket and pants.
I seriously don't care. If it makes the spouse, dependent, family member, boy/girlfriend happy and the Soldier doesn't care, why should I? They're not guilty of stolen valor. They're wearing something that associates them with their loved ones military service. It's a symbol of pride, of a common culture, and the concept of the Citizen Soldier drawn from the common populace rather than a separate warrior caste.
So, I wholeheartedly support pink haired girls in ponytails wearing the APFU jacket and pants.
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Right of the top as a casual thing, no.
My wife has never asked and i only offered once, after a wedding reception while waiting for a taxi when the temperature dropped more than twenty degrees. I'll take the hit for letting her wear my dress blues jacket.
Truth be told I feel bad wearing BDUs when working around the house and no one's used those in a decade.
My wife has never asked and i only offered once, after a wedding reception while waiting for a taxi when the temperature dropped more than twenty degrees. I'll take the hit for letting her wear my dress blues jacket.
Truth be told I feel bad wearing BDUs when working around the house and no one's used those in a decade.
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Well, it is an old BDU blouse so they aren't trying for any "perks" as it were. While I do not personally like it when those that haven't earned it wear the uniform in any way shape or form, but in this kind of case it is their right to do so. Oxymoron in a way what I just said, but thems the beans nowadays.
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I wore an old Army shirt for a jacket in High school. It belonged to my Vietnam Vet Cousin.. He gave it to me and told me to wear it with pride of what he had done. I wasn't trying to play off I was anything. It was considered "cool" to wear one in 1978 and no one was trying to pass off any stolen valor or anything. Actually it promoted conversations about the military because most students that wore one also knew stories from the family member that gave it to them. I joined the U.S.M.C. in 1979 and earned my own uniforms and stories. My brother ( 12 years younger) would wear my long wool dress coat to school. Corporal chevrons and one hash mark. This sparked conversations about the Marines and stories I had shared with him. Two of his friends later joined the Corps. Maybe that helped influence them. As long as they are not trying to steal honor or pass themselves off as the real deal, what is the harm?
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If it's on a military member it's called a uniform, if it's on a civilian, its called clothing.
There are no "rules" for clothing, and in many states few rules for a lack of clothing...lol
Unless the civilian is attempting to portray a US military member by wearing the uniform item... who cares, it's just a piece of cloth, the person bearing it is what makes it a uniform.
There are no "rules" for clothing, and in many states few rules for a lack of clothing...lol
Unless the civilian is attempting to portray a US military member by wearing the uniform item... who cares, it's just a piece of cloth, the person bearing it is what makes it a uniform.
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Remember not to get wrapped up in the BS. If you get torqued looking at this, you're the one that's going to pay for it with unessicary internal agression. You spoke on it, and expressed your feelings, and frankly, you did a LOT better than many of the yahoo's who are hell bent on "making em famous" who have a lot more rank on their chests.
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Fleece, PT's among other item are authorized for wear with civilian clothes by service members so why not spouses
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I personally don't like it and its inappropriate. I would never let my husband walk around in parts of my uniform that he has no business wearing or the right to wear. When I see the spouses who do this I think to myself...
"Hmmm you couldn't find anything else in your closet to wear"
"You let your wife come out in your pt uniform, wtf."
"REALLY?!"
These are things that I think of because its just ridiculous.
"Hmmm you couldn't find anything else in your closet to wear"
"You let your wife come out in your pt uniform, wtf."
"REALLY?!"
These are things that I think of because its just ridiculous.
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