New AF Dress Coat Left Flapping in the Wind

Defense Tech Website ^ | Sept 18, 2008 | Bryant Jordan

[hattend]

God, the country is possibly on the verge of electing a communist as President and the Air Force wants to model themselves as some kind of North Korean wannabe.

What's happening to our country?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The Air Force seems to be suffering from a major inferiority complex.

[GAB-1955]

You don’t know your history... those uniforms resemble the Air Service uniforms of Billy Mitchell. I still don’t like them.

[hedgetrimmer]

It has been abandoned by it’s citizens.

[Squantos]

I do believe that uniform was dropped from consideration......this has to be an old article.

[Ole Okie]

What's happening to our country?

Getting ready for the Obamamessiah?

Ugh!

[Chinstrap61a]

More like a direct copy of the Marine Corps Dress Blues...

I suspect you never were member of the Corps, were you...Only a non-Marine would mistake that uniform for that of the North Koreans.

[Thrownatbirth]

I’d laugh, except we went through the same crap in the Navy. We had some Z-grams that were beauts.

[hattend]

Nope, was not a Marine.

I’ve seen the Marine Dress Uniform and this doesn’t look like it (or as sharp)

[org.whodat]

God, the country is possibly on the verge of electing a communist as President and the Air Force wants to model themselves as some kind of North Korean wannabe.

ROFLOL

[hattend]

The article was dated 10 days ago.

Hopefully, this uniform won’t make it to the finals.

Reading the comments after the article not many people like it.

[VOA]

Two thumbs down here on the new gear.
(Admittedly spoken like the never-served, over-protected citizen that I am.)

It does have some of the lines of some 1920s uniforms.
But what I dislike is what it also looks like.
To my inexpert eye, it looks like a Nehru jacket that didn’t get
the collar finished before showing.
Or maybe something like WWII Soviet garb.

But hey, what do I know about fashion?
I’m NO Tim Gunn!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Looks like something the Salvation Army would wear.

Not knocking the Salvation Army but that just isn’t military!

[sphinx]

Oooooh ... it’s Space Command!

[PAR35]

Sounds like the air force budget is about $125 million too high.

[Army Air Corps]

The design looks like something from the 1920s or 1930s. A very “Old School” design. I kinda like it - a bit of a traditional look.

[M203M4]

I was under the impression that the uniform pictured had been dropped from consideration. Hopefully this is mere taunting from beyond the grave!!!

[Travis McGee]

OTOH, I think the new USAF “urban tiger stripe” BDUs are pretty snazzy.

[null and void]

So many designs to try...

[Secret Agent Man]

Do we really want our troops looking like the Third Reich? Because that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this.