Posted on Mar 8, 2014
What's your take on the return of Friday Morale shirts and patches?
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The Air Force Chief of Staff has brought back the old practice of wearing individual squadron T-shirts and patches on Fridays. This week was the first week our unit wore our shirts. I found that around the base there was a lot of negative feelings towards people wearing "Friday shirts". I love getting to do something different in uniform, but I guess some people feel like it's improper or unprofessional, even though the new edition of the dress and appearance regulation authorizes it. Any thoughts?
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Sometimes it's the little things that make a difference... great motivation!
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I'll keep my answer simple, if the CSAF gives Airmen morale shirts then I'm one of the first to wear mine to work on Friday. There's nothing improper or unprofessional about something authorized by an AIr Force Instruction! Nice choice by your unit for going with the blue... our unit took red!
Oh, but I do love my multi-cams... wish those were our in-garrison uniform as well (but thank goodness we scratched the tiger striped smurf suit)!
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Cant wait to get my hands on my first morale T-shirt! Its nice to see that current AF leadership is seeking new means to make serving in the USAF exciting. While it may only be a t-shirt to some, I see this as a gateway to better days!
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CMSgt James Nolan
Not beating up on you MSgt Collins, but we need to talk if wearing a T-Shirt is going to make serving in the military "exciting". I think that where you were headed with that was that Leadership is trying to allow for Unit Pride through a little bit of Unit Individuality. And I do agree with you that if they are actively seeking to improve morale, perhaps the efforts will continue, and with luck-succeed!
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I think this is a great morale booster for many during the work day, the only way I could see it being unprofessional is the same way as a regular t-shirt, is if it dirty or raggedy, other than that it is just the same as a unit wearing their unit t-shirts during a PT run and no one complains and calls that unprofessional or improper, sounds like their are some individuals at your location that need to get the corn cobs out of their butts and join the camaraderie of the installation and it units.
I wish the Army did something like that when I was still in.
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Let me get this strait. Some of your guys in the blue have an issue with the t-shirts. But that God-awful excuse for a camouflage fatigue uniform called ABU is somehow squared away?! I'm not busting your collective balls. ACU sucks just as much, if not more, because the Army's supposed to know better.
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1SG(P) (Join to see)
Blue would've worked well. The Navy uses it to quite effectively to camouflage individual sailors on 100K ton aircraft carriers.
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TSgt (Join to see)
<p>Why wouldn't you want to be wearing dark blue when you fall off a ship into the ocean?!?</p><p><br></p><p>I still have BDUs and DCUs hanging in the closet, hoping they will bring them back one day.</p>
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Capt Brandon Charters
Regarding the ABU...it's about as close to wearing a full denim on denim outfit as it gets:)
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The best we could do back in the day, was diff colored baseball caps to denote diff flights in operations. No distinctive "T"s unless you consider them damn scoop neck things that were forced on us in the 60's. They were distinctive in the sense that they were really ugly OD. We wore them back to front under fatigues and they was still ugly. Of course this is the same management that issued jungle suits when we arrived in country and then had them back when we PCS'd. What the heck could they do with them after a double tour in that heat and humidity?
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I think it is a great idea to bring back morale shirts. Ever since we switched to ABUs we have lost unit patches. Unit shirts are the closest thing to unit patches that we may see for a very long time.
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Best we could do back in the day was diff colored baseball hats to denote diff flights of operations. No distinctive "T"s, unless you consider them scoop neck OD ones that were forced on us during the 60's. They were distinctively horrendous. Of course this was the same period when we were issued jungle suits when we arrived in country and then had to turn them in when we PCS'd. Who the heck would want them after they had been worn in that heat and humidity?
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Loving the shirts I am seeing! While some may feel they are unprofessional the CSAF seems to think otherwise. To those I say go and review the Enlisted Force structure...specifically the part that describes how NCO/SNCOs are required to enthusiastically support, promote, and defend leaders decisions.
Way to show off that unit pride!
Way to show off that unit pride!
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