Uniform board releases results

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  • By Staff Sgt. Melanie Streeter
  • Air Force Print News
WASHINGTON --  Air Force officials recently released the results of the 96th Air Force Uniform Board held June 18 and 19.

The chief of staff approved a number of changes, affecting everything from cell phones to scarves. Among the changes are:

-- Establish a standardized Air Force physical training uniform.

-- Redesign the female lightweight blue jacket.

-- Authorize the lightweight blue jacket to be worn indoors.

-- Authorize, as an option, to have the Air Force symbol embroidered on the lightweight blue jacket.

-- Offer the A-line skirt as an optional item.

-- Redesign and revise maternity uniforms.

-- Authorize the black scarf only with all Air Force uniforms, eliminating white, gray and olive drab options.

-- Authorize conservative ornamentation on nonprescription sunglasses and eyeglasses.

-- Authorize one small, black, nondescript personal digital assistant, pager or cellular phone at a time to be worn on the uniform belt.

-- Allow females to wear small, black spherical earrings when in uniform.

-- Allow black web belts or black riggers belts with nondescript buckles as an optional item with the battle dress uniform.

-- Remove the requirement to wear a tie or tab with short-sleeved shirt or blouse while traveling on a commercial airline.

-- Authorize wear of a backpack over both shoulders.

-- Authorize only a solid-color black backpack with blue uniform combinations and solid black, olive drab or woodland camouflage backpack with battle dress uniforms.

-- Redesign the security forces beret.

-- Allow the wear of plain black conservative hairpins, combs, headbands, elastic bands and barrettes with all female hair colors.

-- Allow males to cleanly shave their heads or have military high-and-tight haircuts; females are not authorized to shave their heads or wear high-and-tight haircuts.

More information about these and other uniform board decisions will be included in the next update of Air Force Instruction 36-2903, being released this summer. Questions should be addressed to local military personnel flights.