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With clothing allowances for 360,000 people in the Air Force with one blues and one ABU costing $13.90 each totals $5 million a year!
Taxpayers are being charged $5 million a year so that the Air Force can wear hats. Hats serve little to no purpose other than being officer/enlisted identifier. While there is much tradition with our uniforms is it time for change. I mention air force as they are not allowed to be worn on flight lines where a good bit of work is done.
Consider the cost of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard how much money we're talking about?
Don't we have better things to spend $25 Million a year on?
What do you think?
Taxpayers are being charged $5 million a year so that the Air Force can wear hats. Hats serve little to no purpose other than being officer/enlisted identifier. While there is much tradition with our uniforms is it time for change. I mention air force as they are not allowed to be worn on flight lines where a good bit of work is done.
Consider the cost of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard how much money we're talking about?
Don't we have better things to spend $25 Million a year on?
What do you think?
Uniforms
Reduction in Force (RIF)
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Prior to the entire Army Black Beret debacle, I probably would have been neutral to the question, but having been through a transition of replacing a fully functional piece of headgear with a felt (wool) sauna on the top of my head, I will have to vote in favor of keeping the covers.
The cap (now patrol cap) does have function and should be retained.
The cap (now patrol cap) does have function and should be retained.
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Compared to a normal household budget, the government scrapping hats to save $25 million would be like you or I sanding the Lincoln off of a penny to help control our household spending. There are just far more meaningful ways that our government could cut the budget.
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