snowyday Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Khaki is a Hindu word meaning “dust colored.†Uniforms of dust-colored drill are said to have been first worn by British and native troops in India in 1848. Today, September 3, 1949) any drab or green-gray uniform is called khaki. In America, khaki is no longer associated with color. Khaki is pronounced: KACK-ee, to rhyme with wacky. By Frank Colby. * * * * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC10FE Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Marvin, In your avatar photo, it looks like you're wearing khakis; or 505's. There were also 1505's and 505 shorts with knee socks! I don't remember when they phased them out, but it was sometime early in my USAF career. Don R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GVS Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Marvin, In your avatar photo, it looks like you're wearing khakis; or 505's. There were also 1505's and 505 shorts with knee socks! I don't remember when they phased them out, but it was sometime early in my USAF career. Don R. Don't forget the BUSH JACKET AND THE PITH HELMET. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Looks like you're wearing a tie in the avatar and long sleeves. Is that an army uniform? Don't ever remember wearing a tie with 1505s or L/S shirts - pants and short sleeve shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyday Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 1955 regular Air Force Khakis. I may be the oldest member of this outfit. If not I bet I am close to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyday Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) This picture was taken in 1955 at Chanute Air Force Base when I was 18 I am now 74. Edited November 5, 2011 by snowyday Typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrkaegi Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 In 1966 we had 505 with a tie. Later went to 1505. The 1505 was thinner..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry myers Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Had forgotten the long sleeve khakis. They were 100% cotton and after about five minutes of wear they looked as though you had slept in them. I disliked this uniform so much that I bought an optional taylor made gabardine one while still in B-47 tech school at Amarillo AFB. In 1957 the only blue uniform was the class A. The 505 uniform was also 100% cotton and looked like crap after about five minutes of wear. When the laundry returned your cotton uniforms they were stiff as a board from gross amounts of starch. The 1505 uniform was somewhat of an improvement as it contained some polyester and didn't require starch. I remember the bush jacket, pith helmet, shorts and knee shocks well. Wore it a total of one time to a Saturday morning sqd. open ranks inspection. Looking back, it's my observation the people responsible for uniform decisions in those days must have left thier brains at home that morning. Does anyone remember when the AF changed from khakis to blue uniforms? Didn't wear blues much as I was a flt. line troop until my last couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry myers Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 1955 regular Air Force Khakis. I may be the oldest member of this outfit. If not I bet I am close to it. Marvin, Your right your close to the oldest. I'm 76 and my guess is as soon as I post this, someone older will pop up. Came in Apr. 57 but unlike you was almost 21. By the time I got to tech school was 21. As a result me and another troop from Brockton Mass. were the only guys in our flt. over 21. I guess for this reason the sqd. saw fit to issue the two of us class A passes. That was almost our undoing. Didn't take long to become familiar with all the honkytonks where the ladies were. Looking back am surprised I even graduated. By rights probably should have been thrown out for ecxessive partying. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Just who is the oldest? Anyone over 76? If you are check in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzoomie32065 Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Just another 74 year "old fart" :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyday Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 I figured I would be close to the oldest. snowyday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F106A Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I seem to recall something I read once that the color called khaki in WWII (and possibly prior to that) was more of a green. I suspect they were referring more towards a name for a uniform (or a uniform type, like fatigues) rather than the color of the uniform. I wish I could remember where I read that. What do you all think? (Edit: Oh, I'm a relatively young, 47-year old grandpa of a 3-year old!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizzard Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Golly, I feel like a kid, just shy of 63!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, re uniforms, what was the designation for the self-purchase blue long sleeve shirt, that you wore with a tie, and matched up with your blues trousers????????? Is that still in use????? Like Larry, I hardly ever wore my blue stuff, probably 80% of the time i wore a zoom bag, whether flyin' or not. Giz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INS/Dopplertroop Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I seem to recall a "short-lived" dark blue, long sleeved, winter thread shirt designated 1550's aroound the early early 70s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizzard Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 That may be it, could it be 1505????????? I bought one, thought it looked real sharp. what little i wore it. I think a bunch of us bought them comin' out of tech school, June '70. Giz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I remember seeing dark blue long-sleeve shirts, mostly in the admin areas. To my recollection, the khaki uniforms (summer, short-sleeved shirts and cotton trousers) were just called 505s. I still have (somewhere) a picture of my squadron (in the khaki 505s) standing at attention by the flightline in November 1962 at Homestead AFB for President Kennedy's review following the Cuban Crisis. Our F-102A airplanes all went home with a painted stencil of Cuba, and the words "Castro's Fiasco". Recon airplanes (RF-101s and RB-66s) making low-level runs over Cuba sometimes exfiltrated with MIGs on their tail, and the F-102's role was to terminate the chase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I seem to recall a "short-lived" dark blue, long sleeved, winter thread shirt designated 1550's aroound the early early 70s I had one of those LS dark blue shirts. Had to wear a tie with it. Early 70s it was. Not a bad uniform, especially in cooler weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyday Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 The uniform that I had on was not a 505. It was before 505,s. I think the 505 came out before I got out in 1959. Us short timers were not issued 505's. snowyday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizzard Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 I had a memory jog, somehow, and I THINK the blue shirt was designated 1549, and yes, I though tit did look good, even though you had to wear a tie with it. My remaining cotton uniform is designated "1505." must be a successor to the 505? This is from the 1970-74 time period giz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F106A Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Here's a pretty good site with USAF uniforms. Now granted, it primarily covers uniforms worn over the years by general officers, but the numbers (shades) are the same. Might be a fun trip down memory lane, and shake some cobwebs loose! http://usafflagranks.com/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 I had a memory jog, somehow, and I THINK the blue shirt was designated 1549, and yes, I though tit did look good, even though you had to wear a tie with it. My remaining cotton uniform is designated "1505." must be a successor to the 505? This is from the 1970-74 time period giz 1505s were what I got issued in late '68, along with the other uniforms. Only wore them a few times since always wore fatigues working in recips. Had to wear them at CRB in '70 during a change of command ceremony on the flight line. Sweated our butts off out there, mid-summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EClark Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 In 1965 we got 1505's never wore them much once for base commander's call pass and review hot as hades that Sat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hercmech14 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 1505's were still issued when my buddy went to basic in May of 75 but were not when I went in Sept 75. I think you could still wear them through late in 1976. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizzard Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I guess the 1505's were replaced with the light blue shirt and dark blue pants? When did the geniuses come up with the blue dress uniform that looked, to me, like a cross of a Chief Petty Officer, a bus driver, and a doorman???????? They sure didn't last long, did they? AHHHH, for the life in a zoom bag..... Giz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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