Stable belts & Dessies

[Realist78]

WTF is it about people (Sgt's upwards) out in warmer climes that think it's the business to wear stable belts with their dessies? It looks fecking stupid as well as a bit, shall we say effete. Cnuts!

 

[billy bollox]

Stable belts are just a shiney's way of trying to look important. Looks like thats now happening in dessies cos the army wear Regt clours

 

[FOMz]

Stable belts and dessies??? fcuk sake, people will be wearing clipy clopy dessie boots and dessie chip hats next in theater! You get issued with a web belt nowadays for a reason.

They look fcuking stupid!!!!

 

[pie sandwich]

Stable belts and dessies??? fcuk sake, people will be wearing clipy clopy dessie boots and dessie chip hats next in theater! You get issued with a web belt nowadays for a reason.

They look fcuking stupid!!!!

You say that, but when we did CCS the other month you had a stable belt on with your greens.







Never let the truth get in the way of a good lie

 

[Reformed Scribbly]

Stable belts are just a shiney's way of trying to look important.

The only one's doing that out here are Regt/RAFP. Billy Bollox, you certainly are talking some.DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[FOMz]

Why do they need to - please explain.................

 

[Realist78]

There was a Chief Tech on the flight here wearing said abomination. FFS, a techy!:raf:

 

[tommo9999]

SWO here said the wearing of stable belts is being encouraged unless you are actually warfighting/engaging the enemy. Come from on high seemingly.

 

[Wing boy]

According to the AP, stable belts are not to be worn on operation or exercise. Arrest them all.

 

[Skeedledee]

The hierachy have decided we need to be identified as RAF and not Army, hence the name badges/TRFs/EAW badges etc. So in their infinate wisdom they sanctioned the wearing of a stable belt with a shiny buckle that says RAF, a bit like the RAF Gunners have worn for years. However as far as I am aware you have to buy the said item, that alone should deter many of us from donning the acutriment!

 

[FOMz]

SWO here said the wearing of stable belts is being encouraged unless you are actually warfighting/engaging the enemy. Come from on high seemingly.

If thats the case - I'll have mine issued thanks.

 

[monobrow]

If thats the case - I'll have mine issued thanks.

Indeed. If they want us to try a method that the army already use for unit recognition (instead of the dessie ROYAL AIR FORCE that might as well be a patch of desert camo stitched over), then they can issue it.

 

[freebass]

I'm currently hot and sandy, one of the snecs here is wearing his stable belt complete with shiny big buckle.......I can imagine him packing the day before, boots, socks, sun block and a feckin stable belt WTF !!!!

 

[rest have risen above me]

There was a Chief Tech on the flight here wearing said abomination. FFS, a techy!:raf:

I'll bet he wasn't an aircraft techy... probably a wannabe .

 

[billy bollox]

The only one's doing that out here are Regt/RAFP. Billy Bollox, you certainly are talking some.DT_Xtremez_14:

Nope, Ive seen Stackers, Officers (inc chippy hat!! even bloody Techies from Eng Ops!!

Also, my current boss is a said ex-techie, and when he was once invited to a course with the Agenda stating "Stable belts to be worn" he wrote back and told them as its not official dress to poke off, and they did!!

NOT OFFICIAL SO GET RID!!!!!

 

[mad_collie]

WTF is a staple belt? Is it some new fangled piece of office clothing that allows you attach sheets of paper together?

 

[norfolkred1]

Off Topic a tadge.
A few years back in Cyprus i saw the ultimate snob with clippy cloppy bodue boots, he went dow a storm on the pan. All degrees and no common

 

[are u looking at me]

This is wrong and shows just how out of touch the REMFs in the RAF are nowadays.

Correct Deployment dress.

DPM shorts, t-Shirt, socks, boots.

This immediately identifies you to all the no-marks as RAF no need for Stable belt, TRF, EAW and all the other b0llocks that we are being increasingly forced to wear by Senior Officers and Staff Wallahs at Al Udied.

There is no room for the Stable Belt, clippy cloppy shoes, forage cap, Forward delivery people in CS 95 and the myriad of other waster b)llocks - don't get me started on the extra creases ironed into shirts (including CS 95!.)

Wrong wrong Wrong

DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[muttywhitedog]

Almost as bad as the Cpls & SACs who wear chip hats.

 

[ReluctantClerk]

In Bas last year the RSM wanted to know why I wasn't wearing any sort of belt on my dessies so I told him the truth, when I got kitted I asked supply for the plastic type one and they said no entitlement - therefore 4 months and no belt worn!