The Great Flight Jacket Thread (wearing/buying Leather, NOMEX, WEP jackets/patches)

[Beans]

Just another one of those Millenials with their damn selfie sticks*.


*Now outlawed at Disneyland!

 

[wink]

@Hopeful Hoya & @ea6bflyr...and sometimes I wear four.
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All set to precisely the same time. Good attention to detail candidate!

 

[wink]

Just another one of those Millenials with their damn selfie sticks*.


*Now outlawed at Disneyland!

So, no more Japanese tourists at Disneyland?

 

[Beans]

just no more schwacking parade characters or coaster-riders as they go by... I'm sure some demographics will be hurt more than others.

 

[mad dog]

Sweet! Omega makes belts!

Yeppers...nutty replica NASA spaceman belts!

 

[Gatordev]

I've had a massif jacket for a few years; very Gucci stuff and light years ahead of the old jacket.

Okay, so dumb question... Where is the reg for manner of wear for this thing? I can't seem to find it and the uniform regs only go up through the fleece stuff. I've seen the name tag worn in some interesting places, and I'm trying to figure out if I'm wrong or just not operationally hip.

Probably both.

 

[SynixMan]

I do name tag and left arm flag. I don't know if any specific guidance for it though.

 

[Pags]

Okay, so dumb question... Where is the reg for manner of wear for this thing? I can't seem to find it and the uniform regs only go up through the fleece stuff. I've seen the name tag worn in some interesting places, and I'm trying to figure out if I'm wrong or just not operationally hip.

Probably both.

I think it was in the flight clearance but this was years ago.

 

[ChuckMK23]

The trend in USAF seems to be wearing your flight suit nematic on your LEFT shoulder when conducting ops - a move that I believe started with U-2/TR-1 pilots in pressure suits and now seems to be commonplace in many images with frontline (A-10, F-15, F-16, etc) units. It looks cool.

 

[ChuckMK23]

USAF trend seems to be wearing your name tag on your LEFT shoulder... I think this is a cool look.

 

[Flash]

The trend in USAF seems to be wearing your flight suit [nametag] on your LEFT shoulder when conducting ops - a move that I believe started with U-2/TR-1 pilots in pressure suits and now seems to be commonplace in many images with frontline (A-10, F-15, F-16, etc) units. It looks cool.

I am not normally a hard-ass when it comes to regs but if you are conducting 'real-world' ops it isn't that too bright. I still remember one of the Apache pilots who was shot down and captured in the initial stages of OIF and from his nametag he was wearing you could tell his aircraft, unit and even where he was from. The less they know and can figure out the better.

I think the reason they do that is because it saves on wear and tear when they put on their harness, keeping it cleaner and less wrinkly and all the better to match their scarves when hanging out at the O'Club playing crud and drinking Jeremiah Weed. I prefer the salty nametags we have in the Navy, in all their wrinkled and worn glory.

 

[ea6bflyr]

I am not normally a hard-ass when it comes to regs but if you are conducting 'real-world' ops it isn't that too bright. I still remember one of the Apache pilots who was shot down and captured in the initial stages of OIF and from his nametag he was wearing you could tell his aircraft, unit and even where he was from. The less they know and can figure out the better.

I think the reason they do that is because it saves on wear and tear when they put on their harness, keeping it cleaner and less wrinkly and all the better to match their scarves when hanging out at the O'Club playing crud and drinking Jeremiah Weed. I prefer the salty nametags we have in the Navy, in all their wrinkled and worn glory.

Flash, I was agreeing with everything in your post until the end.....What is today's Navy drinking....you left us hanging. (Fireball?) An yes, that Jeremiah Weed stuff is absolute crap....the AF must be an investor...

 

[Flash]

Flash, I was agreeing with everything in your post until the end.....What is today's Navy drinking....you left us hanging. (Fireball?) An yes, that Jeremiah Weed stuff is absolute crap....the AF must be an investor...

Well on New Year's I drank Jack, Yuengling, champagne and port. All that seemed to do it's job well, since I was 'fucking lit' by the end of it all.

 

[ChuckMK23]

I also like that on AF flight suits they dispense with the so called "FOD Flap"

 

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... All that seemed to do it's job well, since I was 'fucking lit' by the end of it all.

I heard that somewhere. Love ya, bro.