re: Reservists wearing uniform while not on duty

Posted by Breauxsif

Member since May 2012

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:06 pm to Scooba

I only spent 12 yrs active duty in the Army, so yeah, Top Gun huh, ahahahaha.

Posted by jpainter6174

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:14 pm to Breauxsif

If it's November 10th you wear your dress blues to the bar... pussies!

Posted by kengel2

Team Gun

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:22 pm to Jim Rockford

Depends, I was asked to wear mine to a couple funerals. How am I going to say no to that?

Posted by 777Tiger

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:23 pm to kengel2

quote:
, I was asked to wear mine to a couple funerals.

I get that a lot(% of funerals wise)

Posted by terd ferguson

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:44 pm to 777Tiger

I got drunk as frick so many times in uniform. I mean getting fricked up is in the navy fight song so I think that sort of behavior is encouraged.

Posted by NWarty

Somewhere in the PNW

Member since Sep 2013

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 2:46 pm to Jim Rockford

I've worn my Blues for events outside of military drill weekends for:

- Both Grandfather's funerals (who were both WWII vets)
- Both siblings' weddings
- Good friend's wedding as a sword bearer as he was married in his Mess Dress

Haven't had a single issue dropping by the grocery store on the way home getting something for dinner that the wife may have forgotten.

Posted by terriblegreen

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 3:44 pm to Jim Rockford

Perhaps someone in the family requested it.
I only wear mine to formal military stuff. However, once I was asked to wear it to the funeral because the family had military ties. I pushed back but they kept asking, so I did. Definitely didn't want to. They were very grateful. It all worked out.

Posted by Breauxsif

Member since May 2012

22291 posts

Posted on 9/19/16 at 4:26 pm to Clames

Says the dumbshit who never deployed to Iraq twice and Afghanistan once. You can have your little USMC grab arse event, when I was doing route clearance in the Kunar Province.

Pussy.

This post was edited on 9/20/16 at 1:02 pm

Posted by Fewer Kilometers

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 4:45 pm to Scooba

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Doesn't Kutcher get into a bar fight in "The Guardian". I don't remember if he is in uniform but I know it all starts because he is in the wrong bar.

Officer and a Gentleman. Gere and his buddy go barhopping with their dates in their dress whites.

Posted by Champagne

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Member since Oct 2007

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 5:48 pm to Fewer Kilometers

There's a reg on this, ladies. No need for the coffee klatch gossip. Read the regulation.

Posted by QuietTiger

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 6:22 pm to Ghost of Colby

quote:
Maybe he doesn't have a suit.

Posted by Beef Tips

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 6:26 pm to Jim Rockford

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This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 4:05 pm

Posted by ATL-TIGER-732

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 6:28 pm to ReauxlTide222

quote:
People tried to buy him drinks and he explained that he was in the reserves and that they shouldn't buy him anything.

No job is unimportant. In time of war his *ss would be on the front line.

Posted by IceTiger

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 6:30 pm to Jim Rockford

I did wear the mess dress to a bar a few times after an event.

Posted by Topisawtiger

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Posted on 9/19/16 at 6:36 pm to IceTiger

I retired in 95 and have only wore my dress blues twice since. First when our daughter asked me to wear it to give her away at her wedding. Last time at a Veteran's Day thing at school my wife works at. Btw, still fit like a glove....