Hey Bob,
I was describing khakis, and you can't really tell the
difference between any of the materials unless you get up close. JAG
looks like they have a pretty good uniform consultant, but of course
the Hollywood spin is thrown in for effect. The actors are way too
highly decorated and way too young. They routinely have Navy and
Marine Corps O-5's and O-6's in their early to mid thirties???
Utapao? Last time I was there was '97, (anybody remember Dave
Doble?) I was the Chief on a team of maintenance and aircrew guys in
there to do an assesment of the Thai Navy's progress with their P-3B
program. My #'s might be off, but if I remember correctly, they bought
5? P-3B's, 2 of them were just for spare parts. When we were there,
only one was flyable and they had another that they liked to high
speed taxi up and down the runway. Our aircrew was scheduled to fly
with them, and they were gonna fly with us, kinda see how each other
did business. It only took about 45 min. before the OIC of the det
made the decision that there was no way in hell we were gonna fly on
their aircraft. To make a long story short, their maintenance program
was scary. They all went thru JAX for initial training, and had
contracted with LSI for all the follow on aircrew and maintenance
training, but renegged on it after they cross decked all their money
into the A7 FMS program. They also got hit hard with PRB-92 which
affected I think 6 of their props. It was a great time and the Thai
Navy guys were awesome, they performed miracles with the little
training and spare parts they had.
You might be interested in a book called "ADAK: The Rescue of
Alpha Foxtrot 586" by Andrew Jampoler, about the VP-9 ditching off the
Aleuts in 1978. Mr. Jampoler is an ex "Milpitas Chicken" Skipper,
(way before my time, I was in Big Red in the Mid eighties). He was in
Jacksonville at the NEX in August and I spoke to him for awhile, and
he signed my book. Not pitching him, but his book is a really good and
interesting read, I couldn't put it down. You can check out some of
the reviews at Amazon.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:44:24 GMT, Robert Moore
wrote:

user wrote
CNT stands for "certified Navy twill"

What color, shape, etc.? Can I watch "JAG" to find
what current uniforms look like?


(By the way, is that command you have in
connection with your name a joke? FAETULANT???
Sounds like "FLATULANT" haha!!!

Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit Atlantic
I taught at the Nuclear Weapons Delivery school
for the East Coast.

Yeah, I did P-3Bs in Utapoa, Thialand during Vietnam.

Bob Moore