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Feck me best i get my Blues out of the cupboard then.

On a different tack, if the job involves, lots of manual stuff, crawling around etc and your blues get trashed then back to clothing stores (which i believe are struggling with supplies of shirts), however us orifficers have to buy our blues now i know we get some money towards it but it aint much and bear in mind that most FS and WO earn way more money than me then some comprimise will have to be sorted out.
 
penfold93 said:
Feck me best i get my Blues out of the cupboard then.

On a different tack, if the job involves, lots of manual stuff, crawling around etc and your blues get trashed then back to clothing stores (which i believe are struggling with supplies of shirts), however us orifficers have to buy our blues now i know we get some money towards it but it aint much and bear in mind that most FS and WO earn way more money than me then some comprimise will have to be sorted out.
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But WHEN do orifficers do lots of manual, crawling around stuff ?

Crack on......................:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
How many blue shirts does £360 a year buy you? As I understand it, if you are doing manual/dirty work you will be expected to wear coveralls - that's as far as the compromise goes. For now, anyway. Let's see if this initiative (well intentioned though it may be) lasts more than a year in the real world.
 
Personally I couldn't care what the hell I wear to work - greens, blues, hell I'll wear my burfday suit if they pay me enough money (JOKING!!) What is annoying is that the RAF has spent god knows how much money getting the Royal Air Force badge sown onto all our greens over the last couple of years so that our civillian friends would know we were Airmen and not Soldiers. If we're now to only wear greens on det, OOA etc then that has just been on huge fooking waste of money!!!
 
RAF Bird said:
Personally I couldn't care what the hell I wear to work - greens, blues, hell I'll wear my burfday suit if they pay me enough money (JOKING!!) What is annoying is that the RAF has spent god knows how much money getting the Royal Air Force badge sown onto all our greens over the last couple of years so that our civillian friends would know we were Airmen and not Soldiers. If we're now to only wear greens on det, OOA etc then that has just been on huge fooking waste of money!!!
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But civvies don't read whats on your CS95.....they see camo and assume ARMY

Some things never change.......and never will !

Crack on.....................:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
RAF Bird said:
What is annoying is that the RAF has spent god knows how much money getting the Royal Air Force badge sown onto all our greens over the last couple of years so that our civillian friends would know we were Airmen and not Soldiers. If we're now to only wear greens on det, OOA etc then that has just been on huge fooking waste of money!!!
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Spot on RAF Bird. I can see you as a Sqn WO talking sense like my girl. :PDT_Xtremez_15:
Funny thing though how come gals got to wear same style CS 95 as us blokes. What with yer funny chests and big inside legs it was a bigger saving than giving you proper lady clothes to wear.
 
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I went into work today in blues (after I'd blown the dust off them) to find that about 30-40% were playing the game...The rest gave it the big middle finger which I feel is the wrong way to attack it IMO...If you pitch up for a couple/few weeks in blues then slowly slide back into your old ways dead casual like then it'll just fade away...If we front up to it straight away it'll just get the grown-ups backs up and they'll walk around the building enforcing it...

That said how many times today when I had to jot something down did I go for my left arm for a pen and realise there was just a finely toned and tanned arm there? fooking loads is the answer...also I was padless as well and I didn't realise how much I used it until today...

Sorry to all you pro-blues people but I think it's just a shocker of a policy from my point of view invented for inventions sake...
 
Wot, no pen pocket stitched onto the left arm of your wolley pulley.....?

What is the world coming to?
 
Vim_Fuego said:
That said how many times today when I had to jot something down did I go for my left arm for a pen and realise there was just a finely toned and tanned arm there?
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Well there is a pen holder on the left shirt pocket if they are reasonably up to date vim.

As for the whole thing, it's about time someone did something about it growbag issue, it's in regs FFS as many people have already stated.
Now as to the definition of flying or non flying IMHO:
brief - flight/sim slot - debrief Flying suit fair enough
anything else blues.

There is nothing worse than seeing scruffy feckers in flying suits swanning round tescos looking like a bag of sh1t.
 
Gillo said:
Spot on RAF Bird. I can see you as a Sqn WO talking sense like my girl. :PDT_Xtremez_15:
Funny thing though how come gals got to wear same style CS 95 as us blokes. What with yer funny chests and big inside legs it was a bigger saving than giving you proper lady clothes to wear.
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Hey my chest isn't funny looking I've got a lovely pair!! :PDT_Xtremez_15:
 
CodeMonkey said:
Well there is a pen holder on the left shirt pocket if they are reasonably up to date vim.

As for the whole thing, it's about time someone did something about it growbag issue, it's in regs FFS as many people have already stated.
Now as to the definition of flying or non flying IMHO:
brief - flight/sim slot - debrief Flying suit fair enough
anything else blues.

There is nothing worse than seeing scruffy feckers in flying suits swanning round tescos looking like a bag of sh1t.
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Not the same...everything in it's place and a place for everything and that place is on the left arm...

Pretty broad brush accusation there CM...Some of us take pride in our appearance whatever the rig...I've seen scruffy people in blues down ASDA looking like a sack of the preverbial with a belt barely visible due to the beer belly hanging down and to be honest thats fair enough as I'm got so many more important things going on in my work and personal life to fret about what you are wearing to work...How about you crack on and do your job dressed how you need to be and I'll get on with mine dressed how I need to be...It obviously bothers you but I feel it's energy that could be used for something useful elsewhere chap....
 
Vim_Fuego said:
Not the same...everything in it's place and a place for everything and that place is on the left arm...

Pretty broad brush accusation there CM...Some of us take pride in our appearance whatever the rig...I've seen scruffy people in blues down ASDA looking like a sack of the preverbial with a belt barely visible due to the beer belly hanging down and to be honest thats fair enough as I'm got so many more important things going on in my work and personal life to fret about what you are wearing to work...How about you crack on and do your job dressed how you need to be and I'll get on with mine dressed how I need to be...It obviously bothers you but I feel it's energy that could be used for something useful elsewhere chap....
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Perhaps i worded my initial post badly, i have seen some scruffy ****s in scruffy flying suits wandering around in tescos, and yes you are right about the same is true for those in blues but my point was why are so many bitching about following to rules.

As for the annoyance it more the perceived double standards.
 
CodeMonkey said:
Perhaps i worded my initial post badly, i have seen some scruffy ****s in scruffy flying suits wandering around in tescos, and yes you are right about the same is true for those in blues but my point was why are so many bitching about following to rules.

As for the annoyance it more the perceived double standards.
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This is an old arguement and very much like re-inventing the wheel but it does remind me of a thread on here a wee while ago about the awarding of the OSA to I think it was All yous deed and how people were bitching about it...I pointed out at the time that it meant that RAF people were winning and also why should it bother anyone as long as someone else somewhere else didn't lose theirs...It's the same here...What I wear to work doesn't affect you in the slightest way...In fact unless I can be ar$ed to walk out of the doors and perambulate around the station you'll never see me in your whole tour here and yet you've got an opinion on something that doesn't affect the price of fish...It's a dead subject brought to light by someone so utterly out of touch with service requirements (manpower/pay/allowances/OOA turnaround times/real estate condition/aircraft unserviceability/retention/officer to airmen ratios/excessive civilianisation/kit shortage/trade pinch points to name but a few) that it beggers belief...
 
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