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All, if you are married, do you wear your wedding ring in uniform? If you do, what kind and what are your thoughts on why you chose that type.
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 155
I wear a traditional gold band, but not all the time. I will remove my wedding band while working on equipment or when on missions. I will hang my wedding band around my neck on my ID tag chain. I have seen one de-gloving and that was enough for me not to wear my wedding band around equipment.
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No,I was in aircraft maintenance. It is not allowed. After getting caught 3X forgetting to remove it, you learn to leave it home.
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Being in combat arms, I wear it on my watch band. I like keeping my digits attached.
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Married for 22 years and just started wearing one 2 days ago, no tan line yet and I am still very aware of its presence. It is silver and my wife has a matching ring but hers is not as thick. We never wore one before because she only recently started to wear jewelry of any kind and now that I do not do the crewing or actual maintenance on the birds it is easy to just lay it on my keyboard when I need to go inspect an aircraft. I am a very traditional guy and always wanted to wear one but it just was not worth the risk of loss or injury in my previous positions.
Pay no attention to the dry craking "old man hands" or the scars.
Pay no attention to the dry craking "old man hands" or the scars.
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I do not. As a Reservist, my civilian job in the fire service involves enough risk that I'd rather not add degloving to the list. When I'm at drill I don't either for primarily the same reason.
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I don't wear mine since I work with live electronics. Plus my ring already broke once on the ship so I tend to keep it on my necklace, in my rack, or at home. I really don't like putting in my pocket because I'll forget about it and lose it in the wash. That or I'll set it down and lose it that way.
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I can't wear mine as a flyer. I'd rather not lose it, so it stays in her jewelry box. We have trust so I don't have to prove to someone or remind myself that I'm married.
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I am not married but I do not think I would wear it in uniform only because I have seen way too many of the posters with people's fingers skinned to the bone when the ring got caught on something. I would also be afraid of losing it.
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When I was a Second LT I lost my first wedding ring doing PT at Fort Benning. Also as a Tanker it was dangerous to wear a wedding ring if you were working around the tanks electrical system you could arch and get seriously injured. So I kept my wedding ring on my dog tags chain until I became a staff officer and no longer worked around mechanical or electrical equipment then I put it back on. My wife would always ask why I took it off and wore it around my neck. My answer better to keep the symbol of our relationship safe and me safe, than to loose it of my life.
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