New service dress prototypes peak interest (USAF Agin!)

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[SandRat]

Brig. Gen. Robert Allardice and Senior Master Sgt. Dana Athnos show off prototypes of the Billy Mitchell heritage coat in the Pentagon on Monday, May 15, 2006.. General Allardice is director of Airmen development and sustainment and Sergeant Athnos is a member of the Air Force uniform board.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez)

[SandRat]

First MacPeak tries to copy the Navy unirorm now this Gen tries to copy the Marine Corps Dress Blues.

Can't the AF have an original uniform idea??!!!!

[bnelson44]

yuck!

[Romanov]

I saw this today and thought to myself - thank God I just retired!

[BenLurkin]

Not too bad.

Someday though it will be black with silver trim :)

[Citizen Tom Paine]

The thing about a US military uniform is that one has to wear it all over the world. This includes different social conditions and in every concievable weather condition - wet, dry, very hot, extremely cold, etc.

[usmcobra]

The trick here is to get Denise Richards to model it.

Or get the Marines to design it.

I say ditch the blue and go with pink and greens (Green Billy Mitchell Jacket with khaki pants).

Now That would be sharp.

[kimoajax]

All I can say is....Y...M...C...A

[Mr Rogers]

When some of these photos staqrted getting emailed around the USAF last week, I thought it was a joke - a satire.

It is very depressing to learn it is true.

[vetvetdoug]

I was p.o.'d when they took away my 1505's. I still have my dress blue Class A's and have them in the closet to be worn when I enter eternity. The dress Eisenhower Jacket IMO was the best USAF uniform. The only problem with the "Ike" jacket was that if one was portly it didn't look to good.

[ThomasPaine2000]

Can't the AF have an original uniform idea??!!!!

You are right.....
This new "uniform" sucks, and McPeak was an idiot...
Just my opinion, A retired Air Force Chief MSgt.

[RightOnline]

"New service dress prototypes peak interest (USAF Agin!) "

It's PIQUE, damn it.........not PEAK....grrrrrrrrrr

[RightWinger]

Four year USAF vet here.
My son will be retiring from USAF in one year.
My father is a retired USAF E-9.

I don't like it!

[JoeFromSidney]

I'm sure they meant "pique," not "peak." Don't PR flacks learn to spell nowadays? Or was it the spell checker?

[Swiss]

I always thought the Army Dress Browns (or whatever they was called) of World War II looked really good. I think a retro look would be a winner. People would see it and think of WWII bomber and fighter pilots.

[Sergio]

I say ditch the blue and go with pink and greens (Green Billy Mitchell Jacket with khaki pants).

Agreed. The cadet officers wore that combination at the military school I went to as a youngster. As you said, it looks sharp.

Of course you all know that it's really the General's wives that decide what the uniform will be.

[texson66]

I'm glad I retired 15 years ago!!! McPeak was bad enough, but this is just f*ing crazy!!!

[alarm rider]

They should have left the late 60's, 70's uniform alone. Why they want to look like doormen and space-twits, I will never understand. Bring back OG-107's and the good class "A".

[usmcobra]

And I thought it was the dry cleaners....

[alarm rider]

Pinks and Greens. The best uniform ever.