Air Force Wing Phases Out Flight Suits
New Directive Designed To ‘Create Synergy’

Airmen at Peterson AFB in Colorado who have been issued flight suits will need to hang them up for good May 1. A policy letter released from Gen. William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, directed personnel assigned to AFSPC to stop wearing flight suits, the green flight jacket and the A-2 leather jackets, no later than the end of the fiscal year.

“At the end of the day we are all Airmen, it doesn’t matter what we’re wearing. We’re all the same.” At the end of the day we are all Airmen, it doesn’t matter what we’re wearing. We’re all the same,”the end of the day we are all Airmen, it doesn’t matter what we’re wearing. We’re all the same,”Standardization among the entire command prevents the perception of a ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ situation; the very meaning of the word ‘uniform’ should drive us toward standardization.”

“We want to create synergy among all personnel across the command,” Shelton said in the letter. “When personnel wear the same uniform it has a unifying effect toward mission accomplishment. Standardization among the entire command prevents the perception of a ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ situation; the very meaning of the word ‘uniform’ should drive us toward standardization.”

Not only will requiring all Airmen in AFSPC to wear the uniform of the day create standardization, it will also save an estimated $670,000 per year. According to Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Trottier, 21st Space Wing command chief, most Airmen within the wing have already stopped wearing the flight suits and will not wear them past the end of the month under the direction of Col. Chris Crawford, 21st Space Wing commander.

Trottier encourages any Airmen needing more Airman Battle Uniforms to stop by any military clothing sales store sooner rather than later. “It should be an easy conversion, so personnel don’t need to worry. If they don’t have ABUs, they have the option to wear blues until they get their ABUs,” he said.

Airmen in the wing have an additional month to replace the A-2 leather jackets, which will be phased out beginning June 1. “By then the weather’s going to be nice, so they’re going to have plenty of time to get their authorized jackets,” Trottier said.

A few grumbles have been heard around base, but Trottier said the change is a positive one. “At the end of the day we are all Airmen, it doesn’t matter what we’re wearing. We’re all the same,” he said.

And they wonder why folks are leaving the Air Farce in droves…

If that is not bad enough, there is this one too!

THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM AN APPALLED OBSERVER:
Today I went to visit the new World War II Memorial in Washington , DC . I got an unexpected history lesson. Because I’m a baby boomer, I was one of the youngest in the crowd. Most were the age of my parents, Veterans of ‘the greatest war,’ with their families. It was a beautiful day, and people were smiling and happy to be there. Hundreds of us milled around the memorial, reading the inspiring words of Eisenhower and Truman that are engraved there.

On the Pacific side of the memorial, a group of us gathered to read the words President Roosevelt used to announce the attack on Pearl Harbor:

‘Yesterday, December 7, 1941–a date which will live in infamy–the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked’

One elderly woman read the words aloud:
‘With confidence in our armed forces, with the abounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.’
But as she read, she was suddenly turned angry ‘Wait a minute,’ she said, ‘they left out the end of the quote.

They left out the most important part. Roosevelt ended the message with ‘so help us God.’
Her husband said, ‘You are probably right. We’re not supposed to say things like that now.’
‘I know I’m right,’ she insisted. ‘I remember the speech.’ The two looked dismayed, shook their heads sadly and walked away.
Listening to their conversation, I thought to myself, ‘Well, it has been over 50 years; she’s probably forgotten.’

But she had not forgotten. She was right..
I went home and pulled out the book my book club is reading — ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ by James Bradley. It’s all about the battle at Iwo Jima .

I haven’t gotten too far in the book. It’s tough to read because it’s a graphic description of the WWII battles in the Pacific.
But right there it was on page 58. Roosevelt ‘s speech to the nation ends in ‘so help us God.’

The people who edited out that part of the speech when they engraved it on the memorial could have fooled me. I was born after the war! But they couldn’t fool the people who were there. Roosevelt ‘s words are engraved on their hearts.

Now I ask: ‘WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORDS OF HISTORY???’

They powers that be are DETERMINED to take God out of everything…

This reminds me of the kerfluffle that surrounded the Enola Gay when the Smithsonian was going to display the fuselage downtown at the Air and Space Museum a few years ago.  The revisionist historians had the display placards written in such a way that WE were at fault for dropping the bomb “without provocation” etc…

That prompted Col Tibbets to speak publicly about the mission for the first time since WWII, and all the WWII veterans caused such and uproar they never put the fuselage on display…

Where does this revisionist crap end???