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Everyone brought up the AF types wearing wrong head dress in first pic, but the navy guy is wearing the wrong head dress too!! looks like shyte!!
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ditchpig041 said:Im the navy fellow in the second page top picture on the right rear marker position.
As for the wearing og the beret by the navy people in the pictures, it is some odd-*** CFMPA order for graduation parades.....
All course long we are preached to about uniforms and dress regs. However, on our final parade, we are made to remove our white peak caps and wear a black beret on parade, which we then take off, hand to the prevost, and have replaced with our red-identified peak cap.
I questioned it, but was told to pretty much just do it...
MPMick said:The MP grad parade usually has graduating candidates wear the beret of their respective element before being presented the ''proper'' head-dress. As most of us know, we can get spare head-dress off clothing online, however not everyone does so. As the ''proper'' head-dress has been modified ( Red Insert for Wedge/Peak Cap ), the graduating class wears the everyday head-dress rather than DEU. Not sure how this tradition started, but I imagine it had something to do with a member not having a spare un-modified head-dress
On another note, recent CANAIRGEN states the red insert will no longer be worn with the Wedge, so back to the standard blue wedgie for Air Element MPs.
Precept said:There has been a recent change, in which graduates now wear their head dress with red identifier (Beret/Forage Cap/Wedge- until red was taken out) onto the Graduation Parade. The red beret is is given to the Graduate by the Cmdt on the night before Graduation at a Parade Practice.
MPMick said:Kind of takes the meaning out receiving the red beret at grad a long with credentials.
MPMick said:Interesting... Kind of takes the meaning out receiving the red beret at grad a long with credentials. Well, change is a necessary evil I suppose. Must be the same with the qualification badge. I noticed the Air officers had there half-wing already sewn on. I got mine sewn after being posted.
Precept said:Just checked the Grad photos from my course, and the Air folks don't have half wings. I think we were the second course to get the red beret "early". However, looking at the most recent course to graduate, they have theirs.
MPMick said:It's nuts how quick some things change... I was a grad of 0064, last "old" curriculum QL3... looks like I'm going to be one of the first of the "new" curriculum 5's though lol... should be interesting...