By Enjoy wearing your dress uniforms you Air Force guys!:
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is requiring most airmen to wear their blue uniforms every Monday beginning Sept. 8, according to a Sept. 4 memo he sent to all service members.
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The current practice of airmen wearing ABUs and BDUs almost all the time originated under Gen. John Jumper, the chief of staff at the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Then, in summer 2003, Jumper directed that airmen begin to return to blues as the uniform of the day. But Gen. T. Michael Moseley reversed that decision when he became chief of staff in late 2005, arguing that the nation was still at war and that airmen should dress like it.He said at the time that his decision was closely related to his effort to instill a “war-fighting ethos” in Air Force culture, one of his main priorities as chief. [Air Force Times via Milblogs]
Look at this way, at least you won’t have to wear a uniform that looks like you work for mall security.
10:18 pm on September 27th, 2008 1
Schwartz is doing the right thing. He should go further and allow the blue uniform to be worn everyday.
Wearing BDUs daily, for all except the Washington crowd, was a dumb decision. The BDU has nothing to do with how you do your job. In an office environment the BDU is hot. On the flight line they should go back to fatigues. Much cooler and easier to move around in. If BDUs are such great uniforms why didn't the pilots wear them? So far Gen Schwartz has been good for the Air Force – above all.
11:41 am on September 29th, 2008 2
I work in DOD Joint Environment in DC. So today was first time that I actually noticed that USAF members were all wearing Class B. None of them were happy about it.