{"id":81139,"date":"2018-08-13T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81139"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:14","slug":"air-force-uniform-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81139","title":{"rendered":"Air Force uniform announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/af-uniforms.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/News\/Article\/1598124\/blending-in-air-force-to-begin-wear-of-ocp-uniform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air National Guard release<\/a>\u00a0announced this week that the same\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/03\/20\/airmen-in-army-uniforms-air-force-could-switch-to-ocp-as-soon-as-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operational Camouflage Pattern<\/a>\u00a0uniform the Army dons will be available to wear for Air Force units around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">But one look at the for-whatever-reason-uncropped photo used in the release makes it look more like an announcement that airmen can now wear whatever the hell they want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Of all the eyes that military press releases are filtered through prior to publication, not a single person looked at this and thought, \u201cHey, would matching trousers be a good idea?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Is this nitpicking too much? Obviously, but is the difficulty of matching OCP uniforms for an official announcement genuinely that substantial? That which has been seen cannot be un-seen!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2018\/08\/10\/this-photo-of-the-air-force-uniform-announcement-is-a-bundle-of-confusion\/\">Air Force Times article<\/a>\u00a0, Tech. Sgt. Daniel Ter Haar takes some liberty with the Uniform of the Day.\u00a0 \u00a0Are Woodlands still authorized in the military?\u00a0 It has become impossible to keep up with all the changes.\u00a0 I remember when &#8220;Sleeves up, Sleeves Down&#8221; was the biggest controversy.\u00a0 I never understood the need for Air Force and Navy personnel to have camouflage.\u00a0 What ever happened to this guy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussnclivinghistory.com\/images\/img6144068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ussnclivinghistory.com\/images\/img6144068.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It used to be easy to tell who was who, I have no idea anymore.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bill_murray-stripes1981-1340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bill_murray-stripes1981-1340-500x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bill_murray-stripes1981-1340-500x327.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bill_murray-stripes1981-1340-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bill_murray-stripes1981-1340.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"caption credit \"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0Air National Guard release\u00a0announced this week that the same\u00a0Operational Camouflage Pattern\u00a0uniform the Army dons will be &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force uniform announcement\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81139\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force uniform announcement<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}