Uniform Hat/Cap

[UncleEd]

Hat Squared: staight on head and pulled forward to two finger width above evebrows

OK, OK, whose two fingers were used to measure and were they clean?

 

[moosedog]

It's all a part of the slow erosive socialist influence of lowering the standards so everyone is the same.

 

[Buford57]

My mother was a nurse. I remember in the 70s always seeing her nurse's cap, starched to a tee and plastered on the front of the washing machine to dry flat. It was a required part of the uniform. By the time she retired in the late 90s nurses' caps had all but disappeared. Uniforms evolve and standards change. It didn't affect the professionalism of the nurses.

My mother was of that era. About ten years ago the restaurant table next to us included a young woman in the old whites and cap. Mom was going on about how inappropriate it was to wear the cap outside the hospital until I told her they were actors from the theater next door. That made it worse.

I think Hill Street Blues damaged the uniformity in uniforms. Life imitated art. Once you let a guy out of the station in a Waylon Jennings hat it's all downhill. Darn actors again.

 

[John_M52]

It ceased when grooming standards went away for the most part.

Have you seen the scruffy beards that are now allowed in the military?

Then there's LE. With all the tattoos, beards and grossly overweight folks, it makes me wonder if there are grooming standards much less physical fitness standards.

Everything gets sloppy when there's no pride.

I'm just a casual observer, my opinion is meaningless.

Don't get me started. I'm a defensive tactics instructor even at my age..... One of the "big" guys said that won't work on me. I took him to the ground. He came over later and said "what should I do if I wind up on the ground with a perp?" I said lay on him and call for backup because you're too fat to get back up. Our official hat is a black stetson but a baseball cap or watch cap is also OK. Chief is constantly yelling at guys for sloppy appearance. But the pay stinks and the job is thankless.

 

[John_M52]

It ceased with "man buns."

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Guarding the shampoo and conditioner. Some of that stuff is expensive.

 

[SMSgt]

And you think a crooked cap is indicative of a society gone to hell?

 

[fordson]

All my time in the Navy, we wore our combination covers squared away. Now our "overseas" cover ("P*ss Cutter) in the Brown Shoe, Aviation Navy were worn Blue Angles style; fore end two fingers above your RayBans and the stern end crushed in the back.

 

[scattershot]

I find it both humorous and intimidating to see all these young cops with a shaved head.

I think that's the point.

 

[peterdeb]

I miss the dixie cup hats squared like in WWII, now they round them looking like a mushroom. Kinda stupid looking if you ask me.

 

[Smoke]

No later than WWII.

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When you're a Five Star General you can get away with things.

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[Smoke]

Dude needs a Tape test

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

Dude needs a Tape test

Agreed. Not very apropos for the rank. The 9 ribbons is pretty sad for a person of that age, too.

 

[AKtinman]

Agreed. Not very apropos for the rank. The 9 ribbons is pretty sad for a person of that age, too.

There was a time when ribbons were not handed out for everything under the sun.

Perhaps Admiral Nimitz earned his paltry few ribbons?

 

[Smoke]

The 9 ribbons is pretty sad for a person of that age, too.

We have no idea what that person's career specialty was and that plays a large role in how many times you're awarded.

 

[SSGRock]

Me back in the day.

 

[S&W Fan]

The cop with the bun looks like England, perhaps the Met? The sheriff's department for the county I live in also recently adopted cowboy hats. I've only seen deputies wearing them at parades and such other festivals.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I don't give a tin snot what the fella coming to interject himself in my potential gunfight looks like, and really, neither does most of society . . .

 

[Muley Gil]

MacArthur was a copycat. Idiot First Class Admiral Sir David Beatty set the standard before that. Note hands in pockets.

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The hands in the coat pockets is acceptable for US naval officers also; at least it was back in the '70s.

 

[Doriangray6]

I quit caring about such things on October 28th 1971 when I got out of the Marine Corps.

 

[charlie sherrill]

It ceased with "man buns."

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I'm OK with tats and light beards, but man buns look gay to me. When I started as a rookie in 1969 long hair, tats, beards, and even mustaches were not allowed. WWII Military grooming was the only style allowed.