If you could redesign the uniform, what would you add to it?

[WestlandScout]

Left down right up then!

[JoeBloggs]

@WestlandScout

Cadets need to wear what they have even if they are pink mittens.

Yeah, honestly, if cadet’s are cold and all they have is pink mittens, then so be it. I will make some jokes, we will have a laugh, but they can crack on wearing them to keep their fingers warm.

[Farmerdan]

I generally make my cadets wear their jumper sleeves down

[JoeBloggs]

But occasionally, just cut the sleeves off?

[WestlandScout]

I was a bit sick in my mouth when I saw that

[Tornado]

Does there need to be a chapter for “Operational” elements, so a in the field, you may wear private purchase gloves of X colour… hats, X colour and Y Style…?

Or…an addendum to the Fieldcraft Manual? (ACP16 when it is finally released?)

*** i say operational, but its just out away from a more parade night/barrack dress routine… not deploying to an operational theatre ***

[WestlandScout]

Yes there does.

Or we just need to give a few people’s heads a wiggle so they don’t apply rules in ways they were never intended to be applied.

[Cadet04]

Rules which are routinely and acceptably broken are poorly written rules

[JoeBloggs]

@Tornado

Does there need to be a chapter for “Operational” elements, so a in the field, you may wear private purchase gloves of X colour… hats, X colour and Y Style…?

IMO it isn’t required. ACP 5 trumps all, so if a cadet is cold/wet/hot etc then H&S comes first. It surely doesn’t need to be written into every other policy?

[WestlandScout]

You must be new here

[SecretSquirrel]

@JoeBloggs

IMO it isn’t required. ACP 5 trumps all, so if a cadet is cold/wet/hot etc then H&S comes first. It surely doesn’t need to be written into every other policy?

Maybe not but perhaps a caveat on documents that states that in most cases, ACP5 will take primacy?

I did say on a different thread a few years ago how on a camp. all but one cadet had No3 waterproofs on the day that it was raining sideways. Of course common sense and logic meant I told the cadet to crack on with their Jeltex (I was camp comming it up that week!)- nobody on the day or after (there was at least 1 photo on social media) said anything about it and I would’ve gladly backed it up had anyone.

[steve679]

@Cadet04

Rules which are routinely and acceptably broken are poorly written rules

[angus]

I’d just MTP it…

Fundamentally, I’d change the way the regs are written - from ‘this’, to ‘this, that, or the other - but not X or Y’ because we depend on parents budgets, and simple availability.

I absolutely would put a Field Conditions clause in - that all that really matters is kids not being cold, or wet, or having wrecked feet - and it would be explicitly worded to stamp on the toes of any cretin, so you’d say ‘we do not care what colour your gloves are, or if the fleece under your windproof is blue, or if your boots or black, or brown, or grey, or tan…’.

[Mr_OZ]

This

Much better on cold days.

[WestlandScout]

That’s allowed though (I’ve even seen them worn with Blues on RAF stations)

[sss]

Honestly, I think the AAFC cadets practical uniform looks pretty spot on!

They still have a dress uniform for parades etc

[ArthurHarris]

RAAF working dress has a much better quality shirt than ours, with patches and medal ribbons sewn on, and they have patent leather shoes (which is great for uniformity).

[WhiskeyNovember]

We really should be patent leather for shoes across the board by now. It’s only the infantry who’d need watching with all the spare time they’d have from not bulling.

[Biggles_Lovechild]

@WhiskeyNovember

We really should be patent leather for shoes across the board by now

Wouldn’t patent shoes look a little American?
Standards dear boy!!

[XRSO]

Oooh Shiny!