Talk:Uniforms of the United States Air Force

Image Sources

I have added the sources for the two images that were removed, then re-added them to the article. They were taken from AFI 36-2903, which is an official military publication. Kajmal 05:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Please note that the image for the Blues service dress uniform is out of date. It needs to be replaced. The USAF Service Jacket for Enlisted has circles around the US Emblem on the neck, while officers do not. Per AFI 36-2903. Gwa2100 (talk) 12:22, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Original Research

"Although there have been a lot of complaints in the Air Force Times about the length of the shorts being too short, the Uniform Board outright ignores those complaints and in fact is designing a new pair of shorts that will be even shorter for the long distance runners."

I have removed this paragraph and copied it here for posterity. It has no references, is original research, and promotes a particular point of view which is not appropriate to Wikipedia. If there are indeed legitimate complaints about the Air Force uniform, then they need to be integrated in a less biased manner and clearly cited. Glacialfury (talk) 16:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

New Service Jacket

When will the new service jacket be implemented? Big Techs (talk) 17:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Photo Caption

Would it be prudent to note in the caption of "Air Force uniform variations through the years" that the shoes aren't all period-correct? Somehow I doubt that Crocs have ever been standard issue, or that modern desert boots were available in the early days of the Air Force. intooblv (talk) 08:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Civil Air Patrol

I added a short section on CAP personnel wearing modified USAF uniforms. Feel free to edit for accuracy.--Locutus1966 (talk) 07:05, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I removed the wording "purely civilian" from the Civil Air Patrol as it is redundant and seems to scream insecurity. Sort of like saying "you are JUST a civilian". One should alo consider there are a lot of former military members of the C.A.P. and saying they are "purely Civilian" is a "dis". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clamcommander (talk • contribs) 15:44, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Page Title Disparity

I'm not sure how to fix this, so I'll just make a note about it here, the title for all the other United Stated Armed Forces Uniform article pages follow the format of "Uniforms of the United States [Insert Service Name Here]" I believe that this page should be retitled to follow the same format as the others, as this is the only one formatted differently. 70.214.19.78 (talk) 14:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

White Uniform

It seems the USAF used to have a white uniform. Jigen III (talk) 12:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Women's uniforms

One innacuracy here, the ABU is not unisex, it comes in men's and women's sizes and has the button direction reversed as traditional for ladies' clothes. If someone feels like writing this up, please do so, else I will when I have time to find references.--Gunso (talk) 22:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Safety Equipment

Unsure of how to flag articles, so I'll just make a discussion post about it.

The "Safety Equipment" section seems to be a bit...off. It states that "reflective gear is completely useless." While this may or may not be true, it seems irrelevant to the fact that reflective gear is part of the USAF PT uniforms/uniform during hours of darkness.

If I had a good idea of how to properly edit it, I would've already, but I really don't...so I guess I'll just make this discussion post and see what happens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cramer21 (talk • contribs) 15:19, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

lightweight all tan uniform (shade 505)

Why no mention of 505s and the pith helmet? So embarrassing as to have been shoved down the memory hole, along with all court records?

Footware and under cloths.

No were in any part of any uniform descriptions are the appropriate foot wear, socks, or underwear mentioned. Are we to deploy barefooted. And except for the special uniforms are the different head gear shown and described like campaign hats, band head gear. Pilots and some ground crew members wear helmets. For the most part everyone wears one of the three common types. Each of which have their own changing of design. Fatigues have had Ball caps , Ridgeway, hats and Beretta. Service Blues have either the flat service hat or the round 'Saucer' hat. Officers have distinctive markings different from enlisted. While the flat Service hat can be worn with the Class A uniform it is normally the saucer hat that is worn. Then some occupations also have a barrette.

Lysle@lysle-art.com Lysle E. Shields Jr. TSgt USAF Retire — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.53.115 (talk) 23:05, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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Operational Camouflage Pattern

The USAF has updated the 36-2903 to reflect the adoption of OCP in line with other branches. This will come into force in October of this year and be mandatory in April of 2021. goej (talk) 04:13, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_a1/publication/afi36-2903/afi36-2903.pdf