Number One's

[ODIN]

This is a total "I am jealous" post, but damn, the 2CAV uniforms for presidential escort is by far the best looking uniform in the DF.

[DeV]

This is a total "I am jealous" post, but damn, the 2CAV uniforms for presidential escort is by far the best looking uniform in the DF.

Just more boot to polish

looks deadly in fairness and a number of RDF get to wear it in role too

[CTU]

Whatever happened to the proposed new Enlisted Service Dress with the standing collar from around 2016?

[na grohmiti]

Whatever happened to the proposed new Enlisted Service Dress with the standing collar from around 2016?

The Band changed their uniform around the same time, and it never went further. I would, personally love to see the end of the beige shirt in all forms.

[GoneToTheCanner]

Jackboots?! I despair...you wonder what the DF budget is being wasted on and now you know.

[na grohmiti]

Jackboots?! I despair...you wonder what the DF budget is being wasted on and now you know.

They are motorcycle boots, and they are PPE.

[GoneToTheCanner]

Who are you trying to kid? You know perfectly well that their function as PPE, motorcycle, wearing, boots, pair, for the use of, is entirely secondary to their use in this picture. It has more to do with Cav vanity and desire not to seen as mere Infantry, or, God forbid, Air Corps. I know you are a biker of many years standing and you would not dare turn out for a run with your mates wearing these, unless you were a ChiPs Walt. And as for the Glengarries.....

[ODIN]

And as for the Glengarries.....

Them's fighting words!!!

[DeV]

Who are you trying to kid? You know perfectly well that their function as PPE, motorcycle, wearing, boots, pair, for the use of, is entirely secondary to their use in this picture. It has more to do with Cav vanity and desire not to seen as mere Infantry, or, God forbid, Air Corps. I know you are a biker of many years standing and you would not dare turn out for a run with your mates wearing these, unless you were a ChiPs Walt. And as for the Glengarries.....

WRT PPE not sure about the No1s but the DPM motorbike PPE has lots of Kevlar type material in it (or at least it used to)

[GoneToTheCanner]

Them's fighting words!!!

I dont mind them wearing the Glengarry, it's just the moulding and ironing, as if it were a beret. You know, the habit of rolling the beret down over the eye and to allow the capbadge to migrate around towards the ear.

[na grohmiti]

Who are you trying to kid? You know perfectly well that their function as PPE, motorcycle, wearing, boots, pair, for the use of, is entirely secondary to their use in this picture. It has more to do with Cav vanity and desire not to seen as mere Infantry, or, God forbid, Air Corps. I know you are a biker of many years standing and you would not dare turn out for a run with your mates wearing these, unless you were a ChiPs Walt. And as for the Glengarries.....

If I could afford them, I would. The Modern shin height boots caused permament damage to the skin on my shins, and am permanently scarred as a result. I'm done with biking now, in any case, so that discussion is moot.
I still have my old pair of FT boots of that pattern, as worn by Gardai until the Daytona boots came along. They Are much more comfortable to wear than the modern counterpart. Particularly if you have to walk any more than 50m.

[na grohmiti]

I dont mind them wearing the Glengarry, it's just the moulding and ironing, as if it were a beret. You know, the habit of rolling the beret down over the eye and to allow the capbadge to migrate around towards the ear.

Why have you a problem with how headgear is worn by a branch of the defence forces you weren't in? What about tne NS cap? Is it not worn at a jaunty enough angle for you?

[GoneToTheCanner]

Why? because modifying Service headwear by ironing it or moulding it is more of a fashion statement/ trying to look cool or edgy/ passive-aggressive bullying (if you don't wear your hat OUR way, you're not "in")/ perpetuates pointless inter-service rivalry/ encourages the worst kind of petty bullshit that drives people out of the DF and also has consequences. My personal favourites are the Depot Corporals who sewed in a seam on their OG combat trousers, which pulled them tight and this had unfortunate consequences when they got wet in the Glen. Ally? yeah. Stupid? Very. Also, the aircrew (pilot and crewmen) who served on the Alouettes and decided to put their own badges on the flying helmets and wondered why the protective coating began to come off. Embarrassed faces all round when the helmets have to go back to the UK to be reprotected. As for sailor's caps, they are virtually unmodifiable and they utterly define the wearer as a sailor and have done for decades. Instant product recognition, you might say. No need for tweaking or altering shapes or messing with stitching. I get why the Cav want their own identity, distinct from the Infantry, but generating seperate kinds of Mess Dress or No1s, for no real need, strikes me as kind of pointless. There are more important things to spend money on.

[apod]

Enlisted SDs are being reviewed at present. On a side note the business case for peaked caps instead of Glengarries for AR Officers has been shot down.

[DeV]

Enlisted SDs are being reviewed at present. On a side note the business case for peaked caps instead of Glengarries for AR Officers has been shot down.

Can’t understand what the big issue is