BS, you can wear your old BDUs around whenever you wish....because, as ive stated a million times now, you are allowed to wear the uniform in limited circumstances, mostly ceremonial circumstances, like weddings, funerals, etc.
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BS, you can wear your old BDUs around whenever you wish....because, as ive stated a million times now, you are allowed to wear the uniform in limited circumstances, mostly ceremonial circumstances, like weddings, funerals, etc.
If you arent active duty, you cant wear the uniform to a protest. There are only limited circumstances when wearing the uniform is allowed.I am not talking about active duty personnel.
No, you cannot. Not legally. You might get away with it just like you might get away with J walking, but it isnt legal. The military forbids it.BS, you can wear your old BDUs around whenever you wish.
You can cite the law, but you cannot make him read it.No, you cannot. Not legally. You might get away with it just like you might get away with J walking, but it isnt legal. The military forbids it.
Inactive military members generally cannot wear their uniform in public, except for specific situations. This is because the uniform is more than just clothing; it symbolizes the military branch and the wearer's service, and wearing it implies representing the branch.BS, you can wear your old BDUs around whenever you wish.
What is the regulation you are quoting this from?Inactive military members generally cannot wear their uniform in public, except for specific situations. This is because the uniform is more than just clothing; it symbolizes the military branch and the wearer's service, and wearing it implies representing the branch.
Here are some specific instances where inactive military members are typically allowed to wear their uniform:
Ceremonies and official functions: This includes events like memorial services, weddings, funerals, balls, patriotic or military parades, and functions of military associations.
Instructing: When instructing a cadet corps or similar organization at approved institutions.
Military funerals and memorial services: Former service members who served honorably during a declared or undeclared war and were honorably discharged may wear the uniform at and while traveling to these events.
Parades: During parades on National or State holidays or other patriotic parades or ceremonies involving active or reserve U.S. military units.
Travel to discharge location: A person honorably discharged may wear their uniform while going from the place of discharge to their home, within three months of discharge.
Specific circumstances in foreign countries: When living or visiting a foreign country, wearing a uniform may be permitted at ceremonies or social functions where it is required by invitation terms or local customs.
Partly from this...What is the regulation you are quoting this from?
771 and 771a as well.10 U.S. Code § 772 outlines the following:
Honorably discharged members: Can wear their uniform for a limited time after discharge.
Honorably served members during war: Can wear the uniform of their highest grade held during that war.
Theatrical or motion-picture actors: Can wear uniforms while portraying military personnel, but not if it discredits the armed forces.
Veterans' home residents: Can wear uniforms prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned.
Civilian students: Can wear uniforms while attending military courses, with authorization under regulations.
Foreign Air Force or Space Force graduates: Can wear Air Force or Space Force aviation or space badges under Air Force regulations.
Members of the Naval Militia: Can wear the prescribed uniform for the Naval Militia.
Retired officers: Can wear the uniform of their retired grade.
Certain organizations: Members of groups like the Boy Scouts of America or other organizations designated by the Secretary of a military department may also wear uniforms.
I see former military folks wear gear all the time and I have never seen any one questioned for it. Now I don't see anyone wearing dress uniforms, but BDUs all the time. When I was discharged I wasn't told you can't wear any of your gear.Partly from this...
10 U.S. Code § 772
(a)
A member of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard may wear the uniform prescribed for the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, as the case may be.
(b)
A member of the Naval Militia may wear the uniform prescribed for the Naval Militia.
(c)
A retired officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force may bear the title and wear the uniform of his retired grade.
(d)
A person who is discharged honorably or under honorable conditions from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force may wear his uniform while going from the place of discharge to his home, within three months after his discharge.
(e)
A person not on active duty who served honorably in time of war in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force may bear the title, and, when authorized by regulations prescribed by the President, wear the uniform, of the highest grade held by him during that war.
(f)
While portraying a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, an actor in a theatrical or motion-picture production may wear the uniform of that armed force if the portrayal does not tend to discredit that armed force.
(g)
An officer or resident of a veterans’ home administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs may wear such uniform as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe.
(h)
While attending a course of military instruction conducted by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, a civilian may wear the uniform prescribed by that armed force if the wear of such uniform is specifically authorized under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned.
(i)
Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe, a citizen of a foreign country who graduates from an Air Force or Space Force school may wear the appropriate aviation or space badges of the Air Force or Space Force.
(j)A person in any of the following categories may wear the uniform prescribed for that category:
(1)
Members of the Boy Scouts of America.
(2)
Members of any other organization designated by the Secretary of a military department.
§771. Unauthorized wearing prohibited
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person except a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, as the case may be, may wear-
(1) the uniform, or a distinctive part of the uniform, of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force; or
(2) a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the uniform of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force.
I see former military folks wear gear all the time and I have never seen any one questioned for it. Now I don't see anyone wearing dress uniforms, but BDUs all the time. When I was discharged I wasn't told you can't wear any of your gear.
She is a disgrace to the uniform.
Obviously formerly intelligent!She may not be on active duty now
A “former intelligence analyst?”
What is she now?
You wear ribbin bars? I only go ribbin at BBQ restaurants!Respectfully,
You appear to confusing where a piece of kit and being in uniform, they are not the same.
When it's cooler I still will often wear my Navy Flight Jacket, but those are in regular shoes, polo shirt undneath and a non-uniform ball cap. Not one would call that being in uniform.
Now if I dug out my Navy Aviation Brown Shoes, Kakhi Pants, Kakhi Belt, Uniorm Belt Buckle, Kahki Shirt, name tag, ribbin bar, Chiefs Anchors on my collar, Piss Cutter with Anchor - that is wearing the Uniform.
WW

She is wearing rank insignia and a US Army tape along with her name. If she is wearing the proper pants and boots, she is in uniform. If she is IRR she can be recalled and prosecuted for participating in a political rally in uniform.Not being authorized and being a crime are two different things.
Here is the law describing when wearing a uniform is authorized, but there are not criminal penalties associated.
If you have a criminal statute I'd appreciate it.
WW
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10 U.S. Code § 772 - When wearing by persons not on active duty authorized
www.law.cornell.edu
She looks young enough to still be in the IRR and she only a Sergeant. She has an 8-year MSO obligation from her initial enlistment. If she is, she can be recalled and prosecuted.Now to throw a wrench in the works.
And I'd appreciate someone more familiar with the Army chiming in as I'm retired Navy.
With the Army you have an enlistment, but my understanding is that there is a Minimum Obligated Service (MSO), after your initial enlistment you are transferred to the Army Individual Ready Reserve if the period of active duty did not satisfy the requirement.
Is it possible that her enlistment time on active duty didn't meat her MSO and she is in some form of inactive reserve status? I don't know, someone with more information than I would have to share.
WW
I doubt seriously she's the real deal. But if she is, she not only seriously violated military protocol but the oath she solemnly swore to be in the military.![]()
Army veteran joins anti-ICE protest in Dallas and ‘calls on conscience’ of fellow service members
‘We have a duty, a moral obligation to say no and resist,’ uniformed ex-soldier says at Texas demonstration, rebuking President Donald Trump for involving the military in domestic law enforcementwww.yahoo.com
If she is active duty military she’s toast
Unless she’s in the Mexican army
Libs might get away with that under biden and lloyd austin but not trump and pete hegseth
Adios!
What pension? She is a buck Seargent.She can still lose her pension.
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"Online, conservatives wasted no time in calling for the woman, subsequently identified as Carmen Colado, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, to be dishonorably discharged or court-martialled for publicly criticizing the commander-in-chief’s orders."
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". . .In most cases, no matter what the specifics of the regulations for each branch of military service have to say on the subject of uniform wear by retirees and veterans, the end result is the same. You are expected to wear the uniform appropriately, on the right occasions, and you are expected to NOT promote commercial or political causes while wearing the uniform of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. . . "BS, you can wear your old BDUs around whenever you wish.