RCR Grunt said:
I'm going to jump on the pile ... No student in CFLRS is allowed to order and wear their own name tapes unless authorized to do so by their platoon staff. Only after graduating are students allowed to wear a name tape. If a student is moved from one platoon with name tapes to one without, then that student will remove said name tape and conform with the new platoon's standard. A special circumstance for this occurring could be say, a platoon is tasked with being an honor guard in a parade for, oh I don't know, the 90th anniversary of the battle of Paschendale. That platoon would be ordered name tapes, and due to time restrictions, be ordered from the supplier in New Brunswick previously mentioned. Thats a lot of minor detail I threw in there, and thats because it happened to my spouse. Therefore, the unlikeliness of this occurring is not debatable.
The supplier does not matter. If detection by IR means is an issue, your name tape along with any other distinguishing articles would be removed before leaving the wire, and you most likely are not in the AF. I have yet to see Recce platoon swing by the cooks tent or battalion orderly room to grab an air force guy to tag along on a point recce.
This is a case of "I'm the boss" syndrome. You'd think with a war on and the air force so busy these days the last thing on anyones mind would be uniformity of name tapes.
Much like when I went through basic, we were a few weeks without nametags on our ODs ... NORMAL.
As to the AF guys going outside the wire and your comments that the AF doesn't do it ...
Word up -- many purple trades people go outside those wires on convoys/DPs ... and a great many of them wear the blue DEU, this means that the nametapes of their cadpat are the AF version of
bluey-gawd-awful-purple in colour. Careful that you don't infer that blue types don't exit the confines of the Camps -- that's just a plain old wrong falacy to begin with.
That being said, those blue types and black types in-theatre would be wearing cadpat AR, so when they went outside the wire where IR does become a distinct issue -- wearing the blue-threaded AF TW nametapes would be moot they'd be in cadpat AR nametapes if they were in any at all. And it's those very cadpat AR nametapes that CSGs usually end up purchsing from the NB supplier due to the contractors inabaility to meet CF demand and timelines for deploying personnel.
For Dirty Dog:
Nametapes aren't ordered on an individual basis (as other threads here discuss) as there is a contractual requirement to place a "minimum order" (another little flaw in the contract that precludes clothing ordering from the contracted supplier for a member who is last-minute deploying on ops STAT). The normal process is for a Unit Nominal roll to be submitted by the RQ Shop (IF the Unit has an RQ) or by the Unit OR (if the Unit does NOT have an RQ shop) to clothing stores. CSG then uses that nominal roll to place the order.
I'm assuming that your order was placed via your RQ, in which case ... ask them to confirm that they did indeed submit a nominal roll to clothing stores (the nominal roll is required to be submitted via electronic means -- so the RQ should have a record of it) ... When they confirm that they have submitted the nominal roll ... have them resend it to CSG with a "CC" to the clothing supervisor asking where the hell their order is after so long.
If it was sent to CSG -- then CSG can get off their butts and figure out where the order is, but even with the supplier missing deadlines -- somethings wrong in your sit. It doesn't take them that long ... and I suggest to you now that either the Unit Nom Roll was never sent (thus the order never placed) OR Sup lost the order and never submitted it to the Supplier. I DO NOT think this is the fault of the Supplier in any case, as there are already built in procedures in place to track orders from contractors and to hasten them when they don't show up on time ... so that would have been done long ago had the nametags for your Unit actually been ordered.
Don't know where the foul-up is in this case, but I can tell you this much --
even an RQ should have resubmitted the order (IF it was placed in the first place) after this amount of time and begun querying clothing for some answers by now.
