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At some point it {leather flying jackets} was "brought back" for the younger crowd and has been around ever since.
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This was brought back circa '90-'91 when Tony McPeak became USAF CofS and the focus became an "If you ain't a fighter jock - you ain't real Air Force" sort of mentality. I've got a really funny document packed away somewhere that began making the rounds in the USAF at that time titled "TAC-umsizing the Air Force."
McPeak was the guy responsible for the major reorganization of the USAF from a TAC/MAC/SAC into an ACC/AMC/GSC structure.
He was also the guy who tried to change their uniforms so they didn't look so much like the Army's - his choice would have made them look more like the Navy's or a commercial airline pilot's. According to my friends over in USAFE at Ramstein and 17th AF at Sembach during that time, there was a
lot of hullabaloo over it in the Air Force...and the uniforms remain unchanged.
And so it goes...
Richard
