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I'm a former missiller and I never wear my flight suit in my new job now that I don't have to go in the hole anymore. I prefer ABUs because civilians don't confuse me with pilots and I never had any desire to be a pilot anway. I would have preferred we wore the old blue suits, but that also would have been a waste of money. Most missileers immediately changed into pajamas once they were underground anyway, so there is no need for a fire retardant material. I respect what pilots do, but missiles is a shit job that nobody gives a ###### about, and they do it every day thanklessly. I'm glad to see they flight suits gone from AFSPC, but I don't think AFGSC is on board yet. Anyway, flight suits are a waste of money for non-fliers, but trust me when I say space and missile Airmen didn't want that job just so they could wear a flight suit. We're all in this ######ed up Air Force together so a little brotherly love could go a long way---and besides the Air Force probably spends $700,000+ a year on trash bags so the "saving money" aspect is something of a joke.

Its OK, the glasses make him look sophisticated!

Maybe he was shaving with a Mach II.

60 years and still doin' it. April 15, 1952-First Flight June 1962-The last B-52H, serial 61-0040, rolls off the Wichita line. It is the end of 11 years of B-52 production. December 1972-Operation Linebacker II begins. The "Eleven Day War" delivers 15,000 tons of bombs in 729 sorties against North Vietnam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWtQ4lfU2vo

That's the point he was trying to make genius...careful down the slippery slope of, "flights suits only for those who need them!" because it can lead some good idea fairy to the arguent of, "flight suits only when you need them," i.e. only on the flightline.

My god, you guys sound like a bunch of whiny bitches. Who cares if some dude sitting in a hole is wearing a set of footie pajamas, does it make you that much less of a man?

I know it is fun to point out when non-flying communities do this sort of thing. But I have also seen it the other way around, where a pilot gets a non-flying command and wants to "Operationalize" all the non-rated jobs. Checklist and checkride everything because that was his comfort zone. The finance and contracting dudes shrug and go along with it. A few years later that commander leaves and the next guy is probably thinking "who the hell do these guys think they are?!" Who knows how many of these SOS and Space/Missile stories came about because a rated CC influenced it.

Nope. Cheekbones are too high. It's a dead giveaway. Even before I clicked your link...I'm thinking "that's probably a tranny." Maybe I've spent too much time in Asia, but it's easy to spot.

Really? Guess who's absorbing those savings -- all your airmen. Not saying it's right or wrong, but what a retarded fucking selling point of this argument.

What an asshole.

We should probably take away the berets from the cops then when they're not manning the gate/patrolling - same goes for PJs/SERE/CCT/etc when they're not actively training that day. I'll have to remember to keep my emergency blues in the truck for when I pull into work and there's a 200 AGL cloud bank hanging out over our low level routes for the day.

they should wear space suits