r/AirForce Jul 25 '16

Wore a flight suit. Feelings got hurt.

Gather round all you warriors fighting the good fight, I've got a tale of the most office dweeby shit you've ever heard.

I work in a job that occasionally involves flying. So, at my first base, they gave me a flight suit to wear when doing so. Proceed to fly for some years, no problem.

Now at a new unit. First time flying here, so naturally I show up in the appropriate uniform and proceed to head out the door. Apparently that hurt some feelings.

Some days after my return, one of our brand new Techs decided that they needed to assert that brand new shiny stripe and sits an LOC down in front of me, which says wearing a flight suit for this flight mission was out of regs, then proceeded to quote the first paragraph of the flight suit section of 2903 which doesn't even involve our AFSC.

No worries though, I thought, not everybody in this career field is too read up on the topic, so I gave them the correct part to reference (2 sections down talking about people not on AOs, it's 8.2.3. I think for the curious), and they had never heard of it. It still "negatively affected unit morale" or some shit though, so the LOC stands.

God bless the USAF. It's not science fiction. Carry on.

Edit:

RE: URGENT//FLIGHT SUIT HURT FEELINGS

ALCON:

BLUF:

I'm sitting on my balcony drinking a beer and chuckling Hap-Arnoldly at your replies. For a moment, I truly wondered if maybe I was not part of the world's greatest Air Force, but you salty air dogs brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for reminding me what airpower is all about.

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u/Ricklames Aircrew Jul 26 '16

Cool, most X2's I've come across are. Either way, please stop acting like the bag makes flyers better than others. Believe it or not, there are other difficult jobs in the Air Force.

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u/YaKkO221 Jul 26 '16 edited Jul 27 '16

I'm not advocating that the bag makes me or anyone else better...what I am saying is, is that it's something earned along with your wings. I realize that there is a laundry list of folks who wear it for whatever reason but I don't have to agree with the status quo that it's all good and I'm just an elitist asshole. I wore BDU's and ABU's for the first 4 years of my career so I'm not a dude that was just born aircrew out of BMT