Mantroon wrote:
So you are saying "wear what you like in the CG just as long as it military?".
Is that what you took from what I said?
On my end what I see is this point being hammered that "we have to represent the movie Aliens, and not the real military."
I'm saying that no matter what kind of limits you put on what you wear,
the public is going to think the Colour Guard represents the real military, not the movie Aliens. So all this "need" to represent the film Aliens (to prevent "members" from wearing genuine military unifoms), is counteracted by the very existence of the Colour Guard itself.
When the Colour Guard is out in our USCM Service C uniforms, Joe public, CNN, and even the D-Con organizers are going to call us "soldiers." There is nothing that can be done about it. This leaves us with little choice but to turn a blind eye, deaf ear to the public thinking we are the military and be done with it.
If you want to limit the Colour Guard (and for that matter the "geared up" section) to Alien-esque uniforms only, that's fine. But don't think that by doing so it will have
any impact on how the public perceives us. The Colour Guard will always look like the real military to them. They will "never" understand it.
This noble crusade to "make sure the Colour Guard does not look like the real military", is unbelievably ironic.
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
EDIT- let me reiterate this one last time and that will be it from me:
If you want to have a "Parade/Colour Guard rule" that you can't wear a genuine military uniform, there is nothing wrong with that.
However to say that the rule is in place "to prevent the public from mistaking us for the real military" is ridiculous. The Colour Guard has, and will always look like the real military to them.
Kevin