Military Members post pics of you in your uniforms. (4 Viewers)

[mkloby]

Can someone straighten something out for me - are soldiers permitted to wear their cammies out in public, say grocery shopping, or to best buy, or even routine airline travel? I thought they were not, yet I see them out in force wearing tactical gear in public, and I wonder if it's just an unwritten practice that they all do. I've seen all ranks from jr enlisted to field grades do this...

 

[pbfoot]

base orders might allow it . When you exited Training establishments to go to more operational units it was more "real world" at least in the CAF it was

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Can someone straighten something out for me - are soldiers permitted to wear their cammies out in public, say grocery shopping, or to best buy, or even routine airline travel? I thought they were not, yet I see them out in force wearing tactical gear in public, and I wonder if it's just an unwritten practice that they all do. I've seen all ranks from jr enlisted to field grades do this...

You can go off post in your ACU's, BDU's or Flightsuits and go shopping or whatever as long as you conduct yourself in a military manner.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I see you were an AD, On what aircraft?

P-3s - I did work C-130 QECs in IMA for a short while.

 

[ndicki]

The (small) German contingent here in Fontainebleau wear their cam kit around town, to the great dislike of the French... Good for them! Anyway, while German combats look good - and German - their Service Dress looks awful. Pity, because the Bundeswehr is far more competent than it used to be 20 years ago.

 

[mkloby]

You can go off post in your ACU's, BDU's or Flightsuits and go shopping or whatever as long as you conduct yourself in a military manner.

Thanks Chris... one of my good friends said that you cannot wear tactical gear out in town - but he's medical corps... they do field training in tents w/ AC and heat... not really the Army! Navy and Marines have much more strict uniform regs than Army.

 

[facecurtian]

I was an AME and had been told the P-3 fire extinguishing system to the engines could be a bear to work on.
I was in tailhooks my intire enlistment, don't know what would have been harder to work on.

 

[ChrisMAg2]

In 'ye ol' summerdays of 1983:
This is me in german Bundeswehr Olive drab. We are on a video recce mission during an excercise.
In the second photo the one facing the camera is me too.
Following are some shots i was allowed to take with my own camera.

 

[lesofprimus]

Nice shots there Chris...

 

[Gnomey]

Yep, interesting to see that Sherman still sitting there.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

In 'ye ol' summerdays of 1983:
This is me in german Bundeswehr Olive drab. We are on a video recce mission during an excercise.
In the second photo the one facing the camera is me too.
Following are some shots i was allowed to take with my own camera.

That training area looks like Grafenwoehr or Hohenfels. Either way it has not changed if it is one of those.

 

[ChrisMAg2]

That training area looks like Grafenwoehr or Hohenfels. Either way it has not changed if it is one of those.

Sorry, it's neither of them. The shots from the ranges and the first Helicopter shot are from Munster-Nord. The "rescue of Starfighter" is at Fassberg AF, and the second Helicopter shot is around Lüneburg. I was based at Kampftruppenschule 2 in Munster, belonging to PzLehrBrig 9. Munster was then West-Germany's second largest garrison. My duty was to assist the shootings of trainings videos. Not quite the usual fighter job.

 

[ndicki]

That is not a Sherman. The turret looks like a Sherman 76mm turret, fair do's, but it is not. I suggest an M-26 Pershing. Perhaps even more interesting.

 

[Matt308]

Ndicki, I'm not a tank expert, but could it be a M-48? The bustle doesn't look right. We gave a lot of those to the Germans post war.

 

[k9kiwi]

Matt

Cast your nose into this page.

Methinks Pershing is the tank, note rough cast turret and the distinctive raised sloped piece in the glacis plate. Something the M48 does not have.

Pershing

However the M46 does fit the bill as the changeover between Pershing and Patton.

Go here and search for M26 you will see the changes as each model came out

TanxHeaven

 

[ndicki]

Do you know, I think you've got it.

The second picture shows a British one, I think. Bit of a surprise there.

 

[Matt308]

Matt

Cast your nose into this page.

Methinks Pershing is the tank, note rough cast turret and the distinctive raised sloped piece in the glacis plate. Something the M48 does not have.

Pershing

However the M46 does fit the bill as the changeover between Pershing and Patton.

Go here and search for M26 you will see the changes as each model came out

TanxHeaven

Ah your right. And I was wrong on both counts. I meant M-41 and still not close. I'm gonna keep outta this one.

 

[k9kiwi]

So we all agree it is a tank.

Do we also agree that maintenance has been a bit shabby.

 

[ChrisMAg2]

Here are some details on the nice blast:

 

[Matt308]

Wonder what weapon made all those shallow pockmarks? 27mm aircraft cannon? I would have thought that the 30mm DU round would have petrated deeper.