My Hat

Thats a very odd protest unless you are going for the B.O. factor?

1. If I were going for the BO factor, I wouldn't've just showered after PT. I was soaking wet after just 2 miles this morning.
2. SFC Spadde already said something to me yesterday about the Gortex while I was in the building, heading towards the back room. "Aren't you hot?" "Not in here."

Perhaps I won't be able to pull it off if I need to smoke bad cigars to relieve tension. But I have no other ideas for protest...

You tell em', tiger.

I have no idea what you're trying to protest or why... I guess this is a geographical thing (you have to be there), but if the goretex thing doesn't work out, you could try wearing your brown t-shirt backwards. I know this isn't as visilbe as a hat or jacket, but it's one of those things that WILL drive some people (TEDs) up the wall. I've been doing it almost my entire career and it's fun to see people actually struggle with the decision to correct me. Some people have tried very tactfully to point out that it's backwards (I guess in an attempt point it out without actually correcting me) and I blow right through them with a 'yeah, I know!' Only once did someone actually force me to turn it around the right way and that felt weird. Like wearing ankle socks with jungle boots.

You know, the one guy I knew who wore his backwards was a TED-in-training (back in VT AROTC). His shirt collars got stretched out, and the backs of the necks are better reinforced, so they wouldn't stretch as much.

I went around over this one with the powers that be and, guess what? I was told i was a KP and No, no elitism or some such bs. It may be the new butterbar but I think it is barbie and Spadde. Morale is for wusses!

I think it is barbie and Spadde

Barbie is my guess. Esprit de Corps sucks ass too.

Who the hell is Barbie???

And Chip- Yeah. I am one of those ones that will go insane at the sight of a fucked up uniform. My blood pressure goes up, I begin to sweat a lot and I go and shine my boots and press my shirts and uniforms just to make sure that I AM NOT fucked up. I hate having an assed-up uniform. (Go ahead and say something, sweetie....I know you want to.)

Barbie wasn't the first one to say something to me about it, though. The day before the announcement Mr. Seersucker Treefrog said that he thought it was unprofessional. (This is the same guy who brought an unclear civilain spouse (not his) through a good 12 feet of "no-no space" before he announced it to everyone. My first thought was, "We have a female contractor?") He also thought that I said "Alpha Wolf," so... He's not the sharpest spoon in the bunch. (And I don't like him.)

Say, I just realized that Mr. "Sounds like a good ice cream store" might read this.

Meh.

meh...

SFC Spadde can go stick it up his ass.

If something this trivial bothers him, I hope he gets in a wreck next week.

I am one of those ones that will go insane at the sight of a fucked up uniform

I'm actually very much the same. A hat (beret or softcap) worn backwards would probably drive me crazy. My brain is pretty hardwired that way. I actually have tried to find out about the other services' uniform policiesso I can helpfully police them up, too. But the t-shirt thing is OK, in my mind. I always tear out the tags, so they never stick out. I don't have the problem with neck lines stretching out. But the neckline does sit higher on the throat and in the field, that's less camo that you have to put on. I don't think there's anything specific about it in 670-1 but that's really just an assumption (based on the fact that we were taught to do it in Basic Training by our DS). The CSM that made me turn my shirt around that one time was just being anal and I didn't really argue the point, because there was no talking to this one. The next day, I went right back to wearing it my way.

And I thought I was having a bad day. Argh, its things like this that make me hate hate hate hate hate hate hate.

For ya'll who are unawares, we have this hat with our unit name on it. Now we also have this competition among the linguists, and the winner, the Alpha Golf, has traditionally been allowed the honor of wearing this unit hat backwards. Its such a small thing that means so much... Argh. ARGH. How about before you ever answer a question of his, say, "My feelings on the matter are I hate you. Regardless, due to my oath to the United States I must answer; Yes, Sergeant."

I have my hat over here. When we start TSCIF guard next week I'll wear it in rememberance.

For ya'll who are unawares, we have this hat with our unit name on it. Now we also have this competition among the linguists, and the winner, the Alpha Golf, has traditionally been allowed the honor of wearing this unit hat backwards

AHA, now that makes sense. Not being in the unit, I had no idea of the nature of the backwards hat. Sounds like some negative nancy is raining all over the unit's parade (and shitting on the unit's morale) in this case. That's completely different than having a dicked up uniform. This is similar to a situation we had in Korea. We had ball caps made with the unit name, a flag, our motto, nickname, etc... We were allowed to wear them with our flightsuits on the flight line for a while but then that was taken away from us. We could still wear them on the aircraft, cause the pilots didn't care, but no more where we would be visible. This later moved on to our turtle necks. We got to wear them because it was so cold on the aircraft during flight. But those got taken away, too, by our CSM - CSM Cotton Hill. greywar should know who I'm talking about.

Thanks Talisein for clearing matters up.

greywar should know who I'm talking about.

yes, and fuck that guy.

Sounds like some negative nancy is raining all over the unit's parade (and shitting on the unit's morale) in this case.

You would have to dig the unit's morale out of the bottom of the outhouse in order to shit on it any more than it already is, but they're trying their damndest.

hate hate hate hate hate hate hate

Took the words right out of my cold cold heart.

I have my hat over here. When we start TSCIF guard next week I'll wear it in rememberance.

You should wear it sdrawkcab!


Seriously, I bitched because it's my thing, but I was going to be giving it up to SPC Blue Eyes once she got her new hat in the shipment from SGT Silverback.


Additionally, I'm pretty sure it's not Spadde, although I'm pretty sure the lack of Green Jungle Boots is his fault/doing/directive.

Additionally, I'm pretty sure it's not Spadde

That is my read on it too....

That is so bogus. Is it Barbie? I know her because she spent some time in my unit before she went to your unit. While I found her pleasant enough to deal with one-on-one, I can totally see her doing something like this. I'm glad to see the Alpha Golf competition was still running, but all it takes is someone with a cold heart and no understanding of the crushing demoralization that can come from working in that unit to strip away the few small things that can be used to find joy in life. Sorry, Pseudo. I feel for you. I hope knowing that one of your fellow Alpha Golf alumni is out there in the world commiserating your pain. Fight the power!

It just occurred to me this morning that perhaps 4LT Kame Hame Ha is a jerk, and he's the reason behind the no-green-jungle-boots policy. I dunno. Two of the other Gs died their green canvas black...

I could see it being Barbie, after the way she justified it.
"Only one person is authorized that," said the collsup.
"No, they're not."
"No, just the Alpha ..."
"We don't have one of those."
Maybe she felt inadequate...

Can someone give me a rank on Barbie? I'm stumped

Can someone give me a rank on Barbie? I'm stumped

MSG....

I really doubt it is the LT.

Yeah, well. I just wanted to have an excuse to name him.

Tal, you don't know Barbie yet. I would've put her rank as pseudowarrant.

And Mr. Sehiclesenis accused the hated Van 2 group (not the Van 2 group no one cares about) of misspelling an Arabic place name that, y'know, isn't usually spelled with the English alphabet. meh. I'm still leaning towards him as at least an accomplice, or maybe an instigator.

And, I'll point out that grey finally agreed with me on this: the higher ranked one was the culprit.
Fie on him. I'm certain he'll fall before I will.