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While watching a bunch of non flying types standing around in their shiny new blueberry cammies a thought struck me. The DOD has seen fit to redesign just about every working uniform the armed services has, almost ad nauseum, some with great success (Marines) and some with hilarious looking failure (ABUs, just the name is an oxymoron). However, the military has done nothing to touch the old green flying bag, some of our fathers flew in the same uniform. I know it works, but you'd think they would at least redesign some aspects to fit each service or maybe each type of aircraft (rotors, fast movers, and props). The army has seemed to have mild success with their weird flying ACU thing, but the majority of us are still using the same green onesie. If you had the ability to, what would you change, would you individualize them based on service or airframe, change the color, add water wings, even a butt flap? I think its easy for most of the people who make these high level decisions to write off a need, because there seems to be a fair amount of contention around the flight suit (I mean after all they are taking away our patches and giving us air force issue black t-shirts, the price for having SWOs running the navy right now seemingly). Thoughts? Should we begin a petition?
While watching a bunch of non flying types standing around in their shiny new blueberry cammies a thought struck me. The DOD has seen fit to redesign just about every working uniform the armed services has, almost ad nauseum, some with great success (Marines) and some with hilarious looking failure (ABUs, just the name is an oxymoron). However, the military has done nothing to touch the old green flying bag, some of our fathers flew in the same uniform. I know it works, but you'd think they would at least redesign some aspects to fit each service or maybe each type of aircraft (rotors, fast movers, and props). The army has seemed to have mild success with their weird flying ACU thing, but the majority of us are still using the same green onesie. If you had the ability to, what would you change, would you individualize them based on service or airframe, change the color, add water wings, even a butt flap? I think its easy for most of the people who make these high level decisions to write off a need, because there seems to be a fair amount of contention around the flight suit (I mean after all they are taking away our patches and giving us air force issue black t-shirts, the price for having SWOs running the navy right now seemingly). Thoughts? Should we begin a petition?
