For the next trip to El Centro?

[cpasley]

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/clt/2910440591.html

[Joe Copalman]

Don't be THAT guy.

[Brian Lockett]

The listing is already deleted.  What was it?

[cpasley]

The listing is already deleted.  What was it?

It was a helmet that the crew on the deck of a carrier would have worn, complete with hearing protection

[scottcolbath]

The listing is already deleted.  What was it?

It was a helmet that the crew on the deck of a carrier would have worn, complete with hearing protection

Some guy was wearing that which was likely the same sort of thing last time we were out at El Centro. I found it a little odd.

S.C.

[Joe Copalman]

He was.  Those helmets are part of a military work uniform, and unless he's actively serving, he's violating the regs.

-STATUTE-
     Except as otherwise provided by law, no person except a member of
   the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, may
   wear -
       (1) the uniform, or a distinctive part of the uniform, of the
     Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps; or
       (2) a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive
     part of the uniform of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine
     Corps.

From Title 10, Subtitle A, Part II, Chapter 45, Section 771 of the US Code: http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/10C45.txt.

Like I said, don't be that guy.

[Joe Copalman]

Thinking about it a little more.  This regulation seems like it would cover the wear of the Army ACU digicam boonie hat I picked up at the Luke show in 2009.  Maybe Navy shell-helmet guy and I can share a cell at Leavenworth.   

[FelipeG]

The funny thing is that a lot of stores here seem to have no problem selling any kind of camo to civilians. I don't even know if that's actively enforced or it's like an aggravating thing if they catch you impersonating someone from the military.

[BillOz]

Maybe Navy shell-helmet guy and I can share a cell at Leavenworth.   

I think he might like that

But seriously I don't think that helmut or your beanie would qualfy as a distinctive part of the uniform.  Otherwise guys can't be out wearing the combat boots, and other partial uniforms so many are wearing.

[Joe Copalman]

You guys are both right, this is not enforced - if it were, I wouldn't have been able to buy my boonie hat, as a civilian and from a civilian vendor, on an active military installation.  I just remember my drill sergeants and TAC NCOs hammering the points about proper, improper, and inappropriate wear of the uniform.  I still cringe when I see fat guys with beards in current-issue Army PT shirts out and about. 

[FelipeG]

I still cringe when I see fat guys with beards in current-issue Army PT shirts out and about. 

Better than the long haired, bearded guy discussing how to govt is after him while wearing a full woodland uniform.

[scottcolbath]

I still cringe when I see fat guys with beards in current-issue Army PT shirts out and about. 

I promise I will never do that. Now, leg warmers with a thong........that's another story.

S.C.

[Scott Youmans]

I wonder if all the civilian pilots wearing flight suits are in violation.  Maybe a flight suit isn't considered a uniform.  In any case I won't be wearing one to El Centro.