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peaches said:CADPAT and wedge, always looked goofy. Flt suit and beret is not too bad. When I was down in Tinker AFB on exchange we'd wear our beret with flt suit. With our darkened sqn patches and the beret the Americans thought we were AF SOF types.... ;D
I was led to believe that the flt suit/beret combo was for Tachel/Seaking crews only, does anyone know if this is true???
It used to be an unspoken tradition in Tac Hel that we primarily wore the green (CF) beret (as allowed by the CFP265) but no one else in the Air Force seemed to (that I can remember)...it was considered blasphemous by the "Pure Blue", but since many tac aviators considered ourselves b**tard children of the AF anyway, we really weren't overly concerned with what others in the Air Force thought. When the new DEU's started to trickle in in 87/88-ish and the blue beret replaced the green beret, a few more AF folks started to wear the beret...initially CELE Air and other support trades...then some non-Tac Hel operators, etc... People can say what they like, but aside from a cool 50-mission hat (forage cap) crunched down over the ears, the beret, worn properly, tightly formed and agressively tilted forward far below the 2.5cm eyebrow spacing found in "the Dress Bible" (applicable to all wearers of the beret, BTW) speaks volumes of an Aviator's character. Nothing will allow a soldier to judge an aviator more quickly and thoroughly than how he/she wears their beret (if they wear one at all)... ;D
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