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Prior to unification, officers had to buy all of their uniforms, not just mess dress.  One story goes (I'm not sure of its veracity) that the only reason officers began to be issued uniforms was because either they weren't buying their green ones fast enough or that there was an assumption that...

Not true at all.  Although the specific factors for which environmental allowances are paid are not laid out in the regulations, they are included in the Treasury Board submissions and approvals.  In other words, TB approves these allowances based on the assumption that the recipients are being...

I really think you misunderstand my argument.  You seem to think that we want a "ceremonial" uniform in the same context as an Army regiment's scarlet uniform.  Not so.  For one thing, the Navy's equivalent to that was a frock coat and bicorne hat, which was discontinued at the beginning of WWII...

The appropriate reference is The RCN Dress Manual (BRCN 108), Art. 2.01 (Dresses and Occasions).  This lists orders of Dress as follows: Blue Dress: Day      1  Blue Ceremonial Dress (Jacket and tie with medals)             2  Not Allocated             3  Blue Service Dress (jacket and tie...

I'm fully aware of the difference between NCOs and warrant officers.  A "senior NCO" is simply a sergeant or a PO2 and I was aware of that when I wrote it.  I simply chose to use "senior NCO" instead of "sergeant" (or "PO2" for that matter, because PO2s have been known to make such mistakes). ...

Fair points, but in each of your examples, things were corrected before they were seen in public.  I don't honestly think the Army is against me or the Navy, but the Green Machine (by which I mean the "joint" CAF culture - not necessarily the Army alone) can be pretty obtuse on things like...

We're not disputing what the regulations currently say.  We just don't agree that they properly address naval custom and culture.  Just because they are currently classed as "undress," does not mean that this is historically correct.  As an aside, the RMCC undress orders are issued at public...

I would say that is wrong as well.  They should wear the equivalent items of dress, not necessarily the same ones.  If highlanders wear their kilts, then riflemen should wear their black accoutrements.

So prove that I'm wrong on this.  I can give you an example.  It's taken us years to get folks to concede that naval officer sword belts are properly worn underneath the jacket.  So, we've seen more than one case recently of naval officers (admittedly, usually junior and still afraid of senior...

I'm suggesting no such thing.  The recent fiasco was a class A clusterf**k, but don't confuse the policy with its execution.  My point is that the policy and the actual benefits that members receive on posting has seen a net improvement.  The execution of the program, not so much.  The biggest...

The idea of making HCW 1B is strictly so it can be publicly funded.  The trouble is with our numbering system, however.  It simply does not account for two different, yet equivalent orders of dress.  Notwithstanding the cut of the collar, HCW is not equivalent to patrol dress for the Army. ...

That's not entirely true.  Having both moved and administered moves under both systems, I can honestly say that we saw a net improvement in overall benefit to the member as a result of contracting things out.  What we hear about all the time is all the negative parts of the Brookfield...

Short hair in the navy goes back a lot further than that (sort of).  In the days of wooden ships and iron men, "landsmen" were regularly pressed into service.  Upon being taken on board the ship, their heads were usually shaved (or shorn very closely) to combat lice.  However, it was allowed to...

Glad to hear that millennials are conscious, although perhaps they ought to observe them on a Saturday night.... Then again, may be the author (a millennial?) needs to pull out a dictionary and learn the difference between "conscious" and "conscientious." 

What I find disturbing in these minutes is that it appears the Dress Committee, which only has ONE naval member, has effectively killed high-collar white uniforms for the Navy.  Things that are unique to one element should not need agreement from the Dress Committee as a whole.  The Navy would...

You're overthinking this.  Simply put in a memo requesting what you want to do.  There is no specific format nor regulations that allows OR prohibits this.  However, personnel are employed out of trade all the time.  I would simply state that your OT has been approved and you have an opportunity...

The regulation concerning not wearing nametags with N1 orders of dress was rescinded a long, long, long time ago.  Nametags are now required with all orders of dress, except ceremonial orders (which the Navy does not have) and Mess Dress.

No longer needs one.  Everybody in the whole country knows his name!

The "Basic" pay level is not called that because that's what you receive on Basic Training.  It's the base pay for that rank.  Level 1 is the 1st incentive increase; Level 2 is the 2nd, etc.  As pointed out above, incentive increases occur annually, on the anniversary of the date you were first...

Only the food portion was removed from SE.  The reasoning was that you have to buy your food at home, so buying it while on IR was not a significant hardship.  SE has never included compensation for travel back home (we have LTA for that).