RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
USNA kids who select Pilot/NFO are issued flight suits around class selection and wear them every Friday. At least thats how it was in 2009...
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- Thread starter Davis
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When I'm on the way out the door of the Big Green Gun Club, can I start wearing my McDonald's uniform every Friday on base?
And that is also retarded. Did SWOs wear coveralls and BUDs guys wear booty shorts and oakleys, too?
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
Yeah, actually. BUD/S and EOD guys wore woodland camo, SWOs coveralls, Sub guys coveralls, Marines wore MARPAT as well. I'm not even joking. they called it warrior day.
So the academy is as embarrassing as the air force?
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
Commissioning sources in general are embarrassing. Pretty sure everyone does stupid shit at some time in their respective pipeline.
It just sounds like kids playing dress-up.
"Look, Mom! I'm wearing cammies! Just like a real Marine!"
Depends on when you are there. Have to score a 98 on every exam because they raised the NSS? Sure, that's pretty tough. Or were you part of the 35 and still alive crowd? Then as long as you didn't fail an exam you were sailing smooth.
KCott and I are proud members of the 35 and alive crowd. Shortly after we left... well thats when shit got real.
As for the homos wearing flight suits to class, its turbo gay, but so is talking about a flight suit like its a fucking pair of wings. Give me a break. All sorts of people wear flight suits that dont fly, and haven't 'earned' them. When I was at HS-6 as a mid the intel officer wore a flight suit most days, at 30 our Suppo (a warrant) wears a flight suit from time to time. Its telling that most of the people who are worried about 'earning' a flight suit are also folks who haven't earned wings yet. Don't get all wrapped up about it, soon enough you'll have the goods and you'll realize the only things that are worth getting spun up about that you earned that others didn't are your wings and your commission. The flight suit is simply an awesome perk of the job.
As for Warrior day, the constant fellating of egos that goes on at commissioning sources is not limited to just the Academy. They just do it like they do everything else... With a lot more organization and a hell of a lot more money.
As for the homos wearing flight suits to class, its turbo gay, but so is talking about a flight suit like its a fucking pair of wings. Give me a break. All sorts of people wear flight suits that dont fly, and haven't 'earned' them. When I was at HS-6 as a mid the intel officer wore a flight suit most days, at 30 our Suppo (a warrant) wears a flight suit from time to time. Its telling that most of the people who are worried about 'earning' a flight suit are also folks who haven't earned wings yet. Don't get all wrapped up about it, soon enough you'll have the goods and you'll realize the only things that are worth getting spun up about that you earned that others didn't are your wings and your commission. The flight suit is simply an awesome perk of the job.
As for Warrior day, the constant fellating of egos that goes on at commissioning sources is not limited to just the Academy. They just do it like they do everything else... With a lot more organization and a hell of a lot more money.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
When I was at the Naval Academy, every Friday post service assignment was warrior day. Pilots/NFOs wore flight suits, Marines wore sharply pressed woodland cammies, SWOs wore coveralls, and I'm pretty sure that SEALs wore whatever the fuck they wanted to.
I looked forward to them. As a prior enlisted Marine who attended that fine institution, once a week for a little more than half a semester, I could feel like a Marine again. Sorry if it bothers you.
Bother me? Not really. I don't get upset at people pretending to be slutty firemen, slutty cops, or slutty Eleanor Roosevelt at Halloween, either.
Then again, you were already a Marine at the time, weren't you?
Then again, you were already a Marine at the time, weren't you?
As long as the sleeves are rolled down.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
That I was. But I never begrudged my classmates who wore the uniform common to their future service on Fridays. Why? At that point we were all in it together, and it was our expression of "Finally! There IS a light at the end of this god-forsaken tunnel."
Yeah, what's up with that? Are flight suits going to be rolled down, now, too?
The green/winter, desert/summer thing was silly to start with. Rolled sleeves have always been distinctively Marine. I suppose this is some kind of "all combat, all the time" gig.