My friend who is a LTC in the Army will be going on a cruise with me this next year. He has the Army Dinner Jacket/Officer Dress Mess and wants to wear it on the formal night. It rivals the Tux and is very nice looking and (he looks great in it - I might add). Is this acceptable? We will be sailing out of Tampa, and I figure that most everyone on board will be American and used to seeing soldiers in uniform, but I dont want to cause a "stir".
Here are a couple of photos that I was able to find. I could not find his exact one. It will be sorta like these, only with the Field Artillery colors (red) on the lapel.
On our Jan 08 cruise on Mariner , we had a number of military and police officers on board . They wore their fancy uniforms.
One was an RCMP officer from Canada who wore his Red Serge Uniform.
One officer wore a fancy uniform every night of the cruise.
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Perfectly acceptable! I am a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and would proudly wear mine on formal night, except that my mess dress was several sizes ago .
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My friend who is a LTC in the Army will be going on a cruise with me this next year. He has the Army Dinner Jacket/Officer Dress Mess and wants to wear it on the formal night. It rivals the Tux and is very nice looking and (he looks great in it - I might add). Is this acceptable? We will be sailing out of Tampa, and I figure that most everyone on board will be American and used to seeing soldiers in uniform, but I dont want to cause a "stir".
Since your friend is on active duty and thus entitled to wear his uniform, it is most certainly appropriate that he should do so.
And the so-called "mess dress" uniform is the uniform that corresponds to a civilian dinner jacket ("black tie") outfit or tuxedo, and thus is the proper uniform to wear for the "formal" evenings.
Our sons always wear their Marine Dress Blues proudly!
Ah, just to be clear, the proper Marine uniform to wear on a "formal" evening is the "Evening Dress B" or "SNCO Evening Dress" uniform.
Those who are not required to own the the respective "Evening Dress" uniform may wear the "Blue Dress A" or, for officers, "White Dress A" uniform instead.
Yes it does. A person who served in the military and who was honorably dis-charge can allways put on his or her uniform.
TM
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My friend who is a LTC in the Army will be going on a cruise with me this next year. He has the Army Dinner Jacket/Officer Dress Mess and wants to wear it on the formal night. It rivals the Tux and is very nice looking and (he looks great in it - I might add). Is this acceptable? We will be sailing out of Tampa, and I figure that most everyone on board will be American and used to seeing soldiers in uniform, but I dont want to cause a "stir".
Here are a couple of photos that I was able to find. I could not find his exact one. It will be sorta like these, only with the Field Artillery colors (red) on the lapel.
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On one cruise we had a group officers from the Canadian RCMP.
They wore there Red Serge dinner outfits (not the uniform you see in pictures ) on formal night. That really made the formal night stand out.
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Make sure your boyfriend salutes any active or retired officers who will be flaunting their rank and medals.
If he's artillery, make sure he wears his red suspenders, the queen of battle dress. The officers will check this out.
Make sure he doesn't wear his uniform or fatigues onto those islands that prohibit wearing military uniforms. He might wind up in jail or in trouble with the US military like Harry did.
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