Or unless you see something like this
Pre BEARDFORGEN/HAIRFORGEN, I saw someone I was certain was living rough in downtown Ottawa.
Bullshit.
Harump! The German in me compels me to point out that Bitburger is a Pilsner.
Depending on where I am going, it is normally easy to change at work, especially if I have to take public transit. For one it's nice to not have people stare at you, and two, the TTC isn't nearly as safe as it used to be and based on past expiernces of walking in uniform from the subway to Moss Park in Uniform on the odd time once or twice a year when I have to work there, of having countless homeless people yell at me because I won't give them money. I don't normally get that in civi's.
I go back to the mid '60s and with the hundreds of gunner veterans of Afghanistan that I've now interviewed for this book, I can say without hesitation that today's product is better than we ever were. I was no slouch in my day but the guys and gals running the gun lines and FOOing and JTACing today would eat my lunch in a competition in a heart beat.
When I first got to the NCR (like first day one my way to a new job trying to figure out the buses) got jacked up by some random Cdr when I got off at Rideau for a transfer (across from 101) for... wearing a beret with SS naval DEUs. Something along the lines of 'naval officers don't wear berets' yada yada yada, you should also be wearing whites it's summer... carry on Lt.
Someone wanted to be technically correct: The best kind of correct (even if it doesn't make a lick of difference to the price of tea in China).
This is more of my gripe with the CFDI revision. I would maybe hold more stock in the "it looks unprofessional" crowd, were it not led by a chorus of gastropods who believe PT stands for "Personal Time" between 0700-0900hrs.
Again, this is where poor/toxic leadership breeds apathy. Had this Cdr been in a high standard of dress/personal appearance as well, and pulled you aside to say "I see you're new here, here's some free advice...." You both would have walked away from the exchange better leaders for it. Instead, its an anecdote on when your GAF-o-meter broke...
Hear hear
A former RSM of mine did the Germany>Gulf War>Somalia>Bosnia run before Afghanistan. He said once the wall fell and things actually went pear shaped with proxy wars/PSO/COIN, he realized how useless his crew from Germany would have been in Panjwaii; they were alcoholics, smoked like chimneys, and spent a lot of time on Ex playing euchre and copulating with canines. There was very little incentive to actually do the job because, well, the Soviets weren't coming any time soon....
No self respecting section would allow that muck on board in 4 CMBG.
The thing is, he wasn't correct. Summer dress means TWL is allowed, but it's not the required order of dress unless specifically ordered. Same goes for peaked cap vs. beret. The Cdr was just spouting nonsense someone else had told him, and doing it in the worst way possible,
I stand corrected. Thank you for explaining the RCN dress stuff to this land lubber
sounds somewhat self correcting.
Sounds like a group of wannabes. I’m almost tempted to join just for the laughs…almost
Sounds like a group of wannabes. I’m almost tempted to join just for the laughs…almost
Now Tar, as a member of that esteemed group, I can confirm that there is a lively discussion of dress and deportment and other issues non operations. Yes there are some martinets, just like everywhere else in the CAF, GoC, RCMP, The Teamsters, even the gangs running the TTC.
That was the weird thing, I was fully compliant with the actual dress manual (which I had happened to look at the night before, because I was nervous and didn't want to roll up with something wrong on my uniform). Some people get really into 'tradition' vs what's actually allowed, and still run into that peak cap thing once in a while.
Amen! The beret is horrible, I have worn mine maybe three times since switching to RCN DEU. All three times where while I was in CADPAT to go inspect Alert.
