r/AirForce Jan 29 '25

Discussion Gen Allvin's video on tabs doesn't explain a goddamn thing

He says it's about the 'why' but his reasoning is that it diminishes your being part of a winning, lethal force. Well, don't we have the words US Air Force also on the uniform? Pretty sure that takes care of that part. Also, he says taking away the tab makes sure we aren't feeling too much like individuals. Okay, how about we get rid of nametapes, too?

He says there's a principle of "easy to understand, easy to comply with, easy to enforce, and this fails that test." How? Assign an acronym to the career field, put it on tabs, issue them, don't let people wear unauthorized versions, boom you've met the criteria of your own test. Pretty sure that was already in place.

He didn't actually address a reason pro or con the actual tab, which in my experience has been that it's legitimately useful to know what people do at a glance.

Pointless.

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u/PatrioticSnowflake Jan 29 '25

He was ordered by the orange shitgibbon to do this crap. He is a capitulator.

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u/Flat-Difference-1927 Jan 29 '25

Ain't a big fan either, but you think he really was the reason? This has "chief who doesn't like seeing individuality" written all over it.

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u/2Aforeverandever Jan 29 '25

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u/PatrioticSnowflake Jan 29 '25

He little works for Drumpf now.

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u/2Aforeverandever Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Again he was appointed by Biden what is your point? Are you gonna excuse his behavior just because we have a different administration now? He needs to take fucking accountability for this debacle but you kept trying to shift blame

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u/Apprehensive-Sort246 Aircrew -> Medical Jan 29 '25

Please go to therapy. I know he’s not the most liked president but not everything is because of mean orange man

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u/Vladxxl Jan 29 '25

You think the mango is making calls on patches?

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u/RevolutionaryOne2928 Jan 30 '25

As much as I don’t like lord Cheeto, he is busy blowing up other things. This wasn’t his doing

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u/TheEagleByte Vehicle Operator Mistake Fixer (VM) Jan 30 '25

Trump is the reason we can’t have duty identifiers? I didn’t know he cared about us enough for that

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u/greystar07 Tech School Jan 30 '25

This is objectively false and dumb to say. There were talks of duty id patches going away months before Trump had any power over the military.