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**Vastatio** · 29-08-2010, 05:33

Originally Posted by clever_user_name

he seemed at a loss.

Could it be, perhaps, that he hasn't thought it through? When were the WWI-type puggaree unit flashes re-introduced? Quite some time ago, wasn't it?

**Tenmiletab** · 02-09-2010, 08:52

By the way 2 CDO and SASR are still to wear their berets!!! OH&S my ARSE do they have Teflon heads or special glands that produce suntan cream.... No I don't think so.

**Vastatio** · 02-09-2010, 08:55

It might be a case of their having enough clout to tell the CA and RSM-A where to stick their slouchies...

**static-line-pimp** · 06-09-2010, 10:35

Originally Posted by Tenmiletab

By the way 2 CDO and SASR are still to wear their berets!!! OH&S my ARSE do they have Teflon heads or special glands that produce suntan cream.... No I don't think so.

1 CDO too I assume.
To be honest as you correctly pointed out this ridiculous AIF fetishist attitude is ludicrous.
And to ask 3 RAR ,A Bty etc to resort to slouchies after recieving their reprieve and retaining the PARA role is quite frankly insulting.......

**clever_user_name** · 07-09-2010, 02:47

Originally Posted by Timmypig

Clever will back me up on this (or laugh at me - we've just been laughing at how drunk I am on bookface).

RSM-A is a cunt. CA is too.

Just re-read that and had a laugh - "Ish not inshabordinashon! I'm an offisher! RSM-Aye IS a CNUT! Wash hat? Orrite, fine. Calling the CA a CNUT iz ishabordinashion. But the you-shless cnut hash to fine me firsht!"

Regarding what's being said about sunlight, etc, the more I think about it, the more retarded it seems. I am willing to accept that the Army has a duty to protect soldiers from environment related harm, such as the risk of skin cancer. However, this whole thing seems to be based on fear of litigation, to which I would point to two things:
1) Surely sun exposure falls into the category of 'obvious risk' per the Civil Liability Act; and
2) What was wrong with the discretion to wear bush hats instead of berets where such a risk existed?

**combatintman** · 08-09-2010, 12:52

If its a tradition thing then that seems to be a crock as well. I got collared in the street the other day by some bloke who asked me why my slouchie was flat rather than turned up at the side. When I told him it was a parade-only thing he said 'not in my day fella, we always had to wear the side up'.

**Vastatio** · 08-09-2010, 22:19

Complete with one brown ear and a white 'chinstrap tan'.

**Tazzers** · 18-09-2010, 12:00

Isn't that Boy George's hat?

**col4835** · 18-09-2010, 14:42

This is a knee-jerk reaction to thr RSM-A recently having a very small melanoma removed. Not that I'm trying to lessen the importance of people getting melonomas removed you understand. He has also just been asked, and accepted, an extra year in post as the CA's lackey so this decison has no chance of being overturned in the near future either!

**Timmypig** · 20-09-2010, 04:49

Originally Posted by col4835

he has also just been asked, and accepted, an extra year in post as the ca's lackey so this decison has no chance of being overturned in the near future either!

noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!