Quoted:The AF constantly wastes time and money on stupid uniform changes.
I was instrumental
in stopping the blue flights suits back in the mid 1980s.
There was a program called Project Warrior to try to get all the shoe clerks to think like a warrior and at the same time a big push with testing of changing the green flight suits to a blue flight suit.
I was a 2nd Lt. We had 2 guys in the unit demoing the new blue flight suits.
Some 2 star showed up to see how the blue flight suits were working out
the 2 star wanted a newbie opinion. He brought me into a closed door room and told me to tell me what I thought, don't hold back, don't tell me what I want to hear, tell me what you think of the blue flight suits.
I told him that I didn't understand the reason, we have a project warrior program to try to get shoe clerks to think like a warrior and have the mentality of being part of the combat team and at the same time we take actual warriors and make them look like they are selling ice cream for a living completely changing their combat uniform to a non-combat uniform. It's stupid.
30 days later, the blue flight suit program was cancelled
The USAF for some reason has a near constant desire to refocus away from combat ops and the mission and spend time and money changing uniforms and other stupid shit. I never understood it.