Mandatory wearing of ASU's to class.

and re: summer white...pain in the A$$.
Navy son's were so gross while he was on his youngster cruise that they asked him when Navy switched to Khakis.
 
sheriff, are you sure you son didn't mean that cadre had to wear them? I know that CC put out a new mandate that cadre had to wear their Class B's for teaching class.

Haven't heard anything yet about cadets wear them. Even if so - what do you do at Big 10 universities, where there's just not enough funding to provide them to non-contracted cadets?

At least for PSU, we as cadets only have to wear ACU's on lab days (Thursdays). So if you have Army class that day you have to wear ACU's; otherwise it's just appropriate civilian attire.
 
Don't know how to quote multiple people on here (without messing it up), so I'll just respond.

PIMA, AROTC cadets have always worn uniforms during various training (you didn't dispute this), but differently from AFROTC in which uniform a certain class (100, 200, etc.), Cadet Command is specifically pushing wear of the ASU now as the uniform for non-field training.

JCleppe, ASU just refers to the entire uniform. You are correct in that they will have to wear a minimum of the Class B ASU uniform. This is also something straight from the top and is being implemented throughout all of USACC.

Thompson, everything I've seen on the topic suggests that the ones who will be primarily the focus of putting in ASU's are the contracted cadets, until either more uniforms are obtained to get non-contracted into. Those that are not contracted (and just attending the class) can't really be forced into any certain uniform. The guidance I saw from USACC said that non-contracted would just wear some sort of pants and either a polo shirt or something similar when the contracted cadets were in ASU's.

Within my brigade, when it came down, there were immediately a bunch of questions from various cadre about how this would be fully implemented, if this only applied to the schools and not to the brigade HQ's and USACC HQ, and a few others. Hopefully answers will flow down soon to get this whole thing implemented.
 
Sons mentioned that changes are happening at Bama, too. Can anyone speak to any special care needed? Do they need a new budget line for dry cleaning?
 
At Purdue, starting this week, all cadets wear ASUs on Tuesday and ACUs on Thursday for lab. Non-Contracted cadets and cadets who have not been issued ASUs yet are required to dress "professionally" ie slacks and a polo/button down shirt. None of us MS1s have been issued ASUs yet, except Gaurd/Reserves people, so we stick out like a sore thumb...
Also, all cadre and required to wear ASUs 5 days a week here now except for during an outdoor lab, which is the only time they're permitted to wear ACUs. I think that's a new CC rule.
 
kinnem said:
is there any uniform better than those summer whites? DS is always overhearing "He's hot!" while walking across campus in it.
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My DS, while wearing his summer whites, is also overhearing "He's hot!". of course that's while he is staring at himself in the mirror.:rolleyes:
 
From the great white north...

We will implement once we have all the uniform items on hand (shoulder boards for B's the current long pole in the tent).

Dry cleaning costs are a concerns, but I guess that's why they get a stipend.

Low quarters on ice...First medical determination for a head injury due to a fall will be interesting.

PMS's have been told to use common sense when implementing the new policy, but the bottom line is AROTC will be wearing the fancy uniform more often.
 
I am laughing at the dry cleaning issue. I guess the Army is more intense on that issue. My DS would bring home his blues shirt over breaks and I am pretty sure the boy never washed the shirt due to ring around the collar!

I know my DS always took his uniform to ZIPS if he did dry clean it. Key word IF!

What are their uniforms made from? I know AF is a polyblend and the shirts did not need to go to a dry cleaner. You could wash and hang dry. The suit is a polyblend also, but I swear it was water repellent! Even when Bullet was AD working at the Pentagon and wearing his uniform daily. That jacket was rarely sent to the cleaners. The pants probably every week, so for these kids wearing them once a week, or even twice, it would maybe need to be drycleaned once a month!
 
We shall see...trudging through two foot of snow may be a little different than walking the halls of the Pentagon.

I don't think uniform care will break anyone's bank, but it is something new for us.
 
that is true Clarkson, I forgot about where your school is located.
 
No word on cadets receiving ASU's on the SMC side, however cadre are now required to wear them 5 days a week. Definitely feels alot more formal in the AROTC department....
 
Have not hear about this change yet from my son. But then, I know they are scrambling to try to get all of the MS1s and MS2s ASUs before Mil Ball (December). Dry cleaning cost is not such a big deal but I wonder about dry cleaning time. Without a car, cadets are limited to the dry cleaner pick up at the student center and it's not a very fast turnaround time. Some enterprising cadet with a car could probably off-set his dc costs by charging his fellow cadets a delivery charge for a faster cleaner off campus. :shake:
 
Good. Glad to hear it. ROTC cadets have less than 0% chance of combat, and thus have no need to wear a utility uniform. SA cadets wear an ASU equivalent at least four days a week.

Flight suits for ROTC cadets is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile.
 
scoutpilot said:
Good. Glad to hear it. ROTC cadets have less than 0% chance of combat, and thus have no need to wear a utility uniform. SA cadets wear an ASU equivalent at least four days a week.

Flight suits for ROTC cadets is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile.
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Army cadets at The Citadel selected to branch aviation have been trying to get them for the longest time, their argument being that Air Force and until recently Navy midshipmen could wear them. The new commandant seems to want to promote ROTC alot more, so this may become a thing if the Army OK's it......
 
DS's NROTC unit has somehow arranged a discount with a local dry cleaners. I think (but am not certain) that they can leave their uniforms at the unit on a particular day and someone carts them to the dry cleaners. They pick their uniforms up at the unit the next day. Of course they are always free to take care of it on their own.
 
Full Metal Bulldog said:
Army cadets at The Citadel selected to branch aviation have been trying to get them for the longest time, their argument being that Air Force and until recently Navy midshipmen could wear them. The new commandant seems to want to promote ROTC alot more, so this may become a thing if the Army OK's it......
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It really makes no sense for your Army cadets to request a a flight suit and I wouldn't count on that ever happening. Army Aviators do not wear flight suits, so having them for cadets would be silly.
 
Interesting Jcleppe. I could have sworn when Bullet jumped with the 82nd our neighbors wore flight suits. Granted that was when dinosaurs roamed the earth so maybe they changed it, or it is early on set of dementia that made think that.

I would think those uniforms are more cumbersome than a flight suit.

For folks with older cadets, you might want to do what we did. When our DS became a AS200 we bought him a 2nd set of pants and shirts for Xmas. The following xmas we purchased the mess dress(AFROTC wear these to military formals). And this way by the time he commissioned he basically had everything and the cost wasn't :eek: he than also handed back all of the ROTC uniforms and able to take the BAS money and run with it instead of keeping the four year old uniforms he got as a 100.
 
My son's AROTC battalion required cadets to wear ACUs one day a week - it may have been the same day as labs, though those were sometimes on weekends.

Regarding laundry and dry cleaning, he made an amazing time- and money-saving discovery which he used his MS1 and MS2 years: namely, periodic, liberal applications of anti-bacterial febreze.

I don't recall him mentioning any dating until his junior year.
 
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