posted 19 April 2019 by Matthew Cox
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service recently sent out a message to airmen that they should buy the new Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) uniform only at AAFES stores. But it appears the situation is even more complicated -- and frustrating -- for airmen trying to get their hands on OCPs.
Facebook and other social media sites have been flooded with comments describing frustrations with trying to purchase the OCP uniform at military clothing stores and being refused.
"Barksdale [Air Force Base] has boxes of OCPs all over their clothing sales floor. Yet they wouldn't sell them to me when I was there for a week and the people stationed there can only buy 2 sets," Joe Soblosky wrote, responding to a Facebook post on the subject.
AAFES put out an April 10 release advising airmen to buy OCPs only from AAFES stores because those uniforms have a government-certified contract number on the inside label and comply with the Berry Amendment, a federal regulation that requires uniforms, equipment and other military items to be made by U.S. manufacturers. It wasn’t clear from the message, though, that AAFES-operated Army Military Clothing Sales stores were also off-limits.
"Uniform manufacturers, in coordination with DLA, are committed to meeting the increased demand for OCP uniforms for Airmen as swiftly as possible," it continued. "The mandatory wear date for the OCP is not until April 1, 2021, by which time DLA expects to be fully supplied with OCP uniforms for Air Force personnel."
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/airmen-face-challenges-buying-new-ocp-uniforms.html
And another.....posted19 April 2019 by Oriana Pawlyk
The U.S. Air Force is exploring the possibility of creating two-piece flight suits for all pilots and aircrew."Two-piece flight suits are being looked at right now across the board; however, they need to go through a 'safe-to-fly' process to make sure they have been vetted and tested and can be used aboard aircraft," Rodriguez said.
That would mean the suits would need to comply with the same fire-retardant requirements current flight suits have.
The service in 2017 said that airmen flying these aircraft -- anything aside from a fighter and without an ejection seat -- had begun wearing the Army Aircrew Combat Uniform, known as the Airman Aircrew Combat Uniform in the Air Force, or the A2CU. The uniform looks very much like the Air Force's Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP.
"The two-piece [A2CU] uniform has OCP-patterned fabric and the same fire-retardant properties as the flight suit, making it certified for wear by pilots flying aircraft without ejection seats," Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff told Military.com at the time. "Since the [uniform] pattern matches the OCP, it is often the uniform for downrange locations where many aircrews are operating," she said.
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