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Wearing of multiple Wings/Warfare devices
- Thread starter Socrates
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burningfeathers
Reading the grout jokes
I'm not exactly sure why but alot of us MMA guys just never take the sea chicken off, if you walk around the academy during alumni weekend you'll see the chicken on Army uniforms.....now that crap is weird.
I still wear my chicken walking around P-cola, its a good conversation starter if nothing else, most people have no idea what it is.[/QUOTE]
My point was that the MMA Chicken is replaced once you earn your primary warfare qual (SWO, NA, NFO, SUB, etc). Yes, while you are earning your Primary warfare qual, you can wear your MMA Chicken pin but not after.
-ea6bflyr
I never assumed that combat sorties would earn an officer CAC's. However I am curious if an officer who was prior enlisted and had earned AC wings(gold) but was not a pilot and yet some how attached to a aviation unit, could he in theory earn CACs by utilizing his enlisted MOS in a combat zone? Say as a door Gunner?
I'll repeat what I said earlier...I guess you could make the argument, unless there's a specific prohibition in writing somewhere. However, I can't think of any reason a non-aviation Marine officer would be on regular flying duty and in a position to earn CAC wings.
Unless one were riding along for the express purpose of combat bling accumulation, which is not cool.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
Somewhere deep in the annals of regulations, it was addressed. Officers ARE NOT able to earn Combat Aircrew. Period. Yes, they can act as aircrew (in the 46 as an Aerial Observer) but a message came out in '05 specifically prohibiting them from earning Combat Aircrew.
JTB7
Member
What if you earn it as enlisted and then become a pilot as an officer? Can you wear Combat Aircrew badge and your Wings? Also, if you were a Recon Marine while enlisted and became a pilot as an officer can you where the jump wings and combatant diver you earned in Recon training with your Wings?
If you've earned them, you can wear them in accordance with Uniform Regulations. Why wouldn't you wear them? Hopefully you are proud of where you come from.
-ea6bflyr
Wouldn't want to have to do your Shadow Box and figure out how to mount all those! That's quite an accomplishment IMHO.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
If you earn combat aircrew as an enlisted man, you can wear it as an officer. You can't earn them as an officer. You can't wear both jump wings and scuba bubble with pilot wings, only two breast insignia are authorized at a time.
P1020.34G said:
I had a friend that had multiple devices and he'd pick and chose depending on mood. At times he'd just wear his one on top.
-ea6bflyr
I had a friend that had multiple devices and he'd pick and chose depending on mood. At times he'd just wear his one on top.
-ea6bflyr
Chapter 5 Section 2 of the uniform regs provides guidance, but it's unnecessarily complicated. I always wear my jump wings as my second because that's the norm for us, but I see guys wearing random shit all the time. I say pick a secondary and stick with it, it makes for less holes in the dress up clothes.
If I were in that situation, I'd choose the bubbles. They're a lot more rare in the Corps than jump wings, even the gold ones. Then again, I've never been a snake-eater, anyway.