![]() The Air Force will use a spice brown color for lettering, patches and most insignia, LaBrutta said, as opposed to the black used by the Army on their OCPs.įirst lieutenant and lieutenant colonel insignia will be black, to differentiate them from second lieutenant and major insignia. Instead, officers and enlisted will both wear rank insignia in the middle of their chests.Īirmen will also have their last names on the back of their patrol caps. Folks are going to have to be patient.”Įnlisted airmen will no longer wear their rank insignia on their sleeves, and officer insignia won’t be on their collars anymore. ![]() “It’s going to take some time for us to be able to field this across the United States Air Force. “It’s a heavy lift,” LaBrutta said of DLA’s effort to provide OCPs for both the Army and the Air Force. The Air Force also wants airmen who already have OCPs to switch over at the same time, where possible, which is why optional wear isn’t beginning before October, he said. The coyote brown boots will cost about the same as the old boots, he said. It will take the Air Force until this October to increase airmen’s clothing bag allowance by that amount, which is another reason why the service is waiting until fall to start allowing airmen to wear it. The new OCP will cost about $20 more than the ABU, LaBrutta said. The old sage green boots, which most airmen wear with their ABUs, or desert sand boots, worn by some who already have OCPs, will no longer be allowed.Īpril 1, 2021: The final deadline for all of the more than 500,000 total force airmen to be wearing OCPs, and stop wearing ABUs once and for all. June 2020: All airmen must transition to coyote brown boots. Military training instructors and military training leaders will also start wearing OCPs at that time, to demonstrate proper dress and appearance standards to trainees.ĪAFES is expected to start selling OCPs online next October as well. 1, 2019: New airmen coming in through basic military training, officer training school, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps will get their OCPs beginning next October, when LaBrutta said the production capacity is expected to be able to meet that demand. The Air Force will gradually expand from there, as the Defense Logistics Agency ramps up its ability to produce more of the new uniforms.Īpril 1, 2019: More AAFES stores ― but not yet all ― will start to get the OCP. That means anyone who already has the uniform hanging in his or her closet ― such as from a previous deployment to Afghanistan ― will be able to wear it.Īlso that month, OCPs will go on sale at AAFES stores at a handful of bases ― Aviano Air Base in Italy, Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, and Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. 1: ”Optional wear” of the OCP will begin. July 2018: The Air Force expects to release an Air Force guidance memorandum on how to properly wear the OCP uniform. Here’s the timeline for the rollout of the OCP: my bad!” Wright wrote online soon afterward. “Wow! I never thought I’d have to start of a post with ‘my bad’ but. Wright explained he only sought to blend in during his visit to the 27th Special Operations Group at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico, which already wore the OCP. This prompted a mea culpa from Wright, who denied any hidden message or attempt at trolling. One commenter wondered if his photos were a “savage tease or friendly foreshadowing?” Others online suggested the photos were ”Troll level 1000,“ or “rubbing it in.” These uniforms are eagerly anticipated by airmen ― so much so that Wright stirred up a hornet’s nest online in March when he posted photos on social media of himself wearing the OCP. When AFCENT in 2012 adopted OCPs as its official uniform for airmen deployed to Afghanistan, the command said the uniforms were chosen because they are comfortable, flame resistant and blend in well with Afghanistan’s terrain. Your eyes skim right over the guy in OCP and zone in on the guy in ABUs.” Scott Daigneault, then-senior enlisted manager for the force improvement program at Global Strike Command, said in a 2014 release announcing the change. “If you get in a firefight in the field and you’re laying down fire, who are you going to see first? Obviously that guy” in ABUs, Chief Master Sgt. ![]() ABUs, on the other hand, have a four-color, pixelated camouflage pattern that does not blend in as well. ![]()
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