Posted on Feb 28, 2019
What would your opinion be on extending morale patches to the OCP Uniform?
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Currently under the AFI USAF members who are authorized to wear morale patches with their flight suits. With the OCP uniform like the flight suits having Velcro, making it extremely easy to change out patches, what would be your thoughts on extending the ability to wear morale patches on the OCP uniform? This is merely a hypothetical question and I know the policy isn't likely to change in the near future. Just doesn't make sense to me on why only the flyers get morale patches.
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Just accept the fact that not all jobs in the military really warrant morale patches in the first place. Example: cooks wearing "kill 'em all" tabs. Or an S1 clerk with a Punisher skull. Or a finance soldier rocking a claymore patch on an operator ball cap. In the words of Captain America: "Son, just don't"
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To quote Tommy Lee Jones from "Under Siege", "This is not the work of a cook." Maybe the cook wearing a "kill 'em all" patch refers to the Soldiers he / she is serving food to?
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IMO, it should not happen. It would be distasteful and have an extreme unprofessional look.
Morale patches are not a given for all flight suits. It largely depends on the squadron, wing, etc. Also, when aircrews fly combat missions, flight suits are sanitized (no patches). So here is the thing --what you are dealing with is a cultural issue. Flying squadrons (and many other squadrons) have traditions, customs, cultures that are unique. Remember that the Air Force came from the Army, a special division called the Army Air Corps. Morale patches are are part of that culture. Flying squadrons represent the core of culture and tradition, cause they were the first part of the Air Force. That is just how it is, so they act and get treated a little differently. There is a reason why most Generals in the Air Force are also pilots --tradition. OCPs have nothing to do with tradition, they are all about the mission. the mission does not have to do with tradition.
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