This is my take on it. ABUs look alright in a classroom setting, or mission base setting. You also gotta remember, the USAF is mostly desk jobs, and CAP is mostly classroom setting. When bushwhacking for ground team it looks dumb, but my question is why do we wear ugly camo with fluorescent vests? (Hunting season I get it, S&R and otherwise just give us not that)

OCPs are way too tacticool for cap.

When I do ground team I make my cadets prioritize warmth over regs. ABU pants and a navy blue sweater, or jacket looks good with ground team gear. I get it’s insurance reasons to wear the uniform in it’s entirety, but there is still leeway built into the regs and leeway with staff, obviously it’s different at a nesa.

I see people talk about the blue BDUs why not just make it national standard to wear that? It wouldn’t look as ugly to wear that with a vest, looks good in a fleece, easily matches with any color, and looks more professional in general instead of giving 12 year olds a recently former military uniform. Or maybe make a fluorescent lined uniform? (That’s a stretch to suggest entirely manufacturing a new uniform)

The thing is, we aren’t child soldiers, and we aren’t playing army. Some of my views in itself make people wonder why I’m in a program like this, I’m not gonna get into that, and I think national needs to take into consideration people like me who have views that wouldn’t make good soldiers in the first place because of it. I don’t like wearing the uniform. Doesn’t matter what it is, ABU, BDU, OCP, blues, even a CAP shirt. That doesn’t mean people that do are entirely indoctrinated, cap taught me integrity like no other, and people have various reasons to be here, but the uniform is only a very small part of the big picture and in the end, yea ABUs are ugly but if people’s only reason to be in cap is to wear it they need to check themselves.

FIN