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ARMY GENERALS
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GENERALS - Air Force Uniform Types
USAF General's Uniform Chart
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(1.)
Chocolate Service Uniform
MG Clayton Bissel
1947-1949 |
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Tan Service Uniform
Unknown - Brig Gen
1947-1949 |
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White Service Uniform
Unknown - Brig Gen
1947-1949 |
Uniforms during 1947-1949 time period, also known as transition period were standard army uniforms with the gilt Air Force buttons
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Shade 84 Service
Lt. General Charles B. Westover
1949-1965 |
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Silver Tan
Shade 193-Service
Major General Lyman P Whitten
1949-1965 |
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Blue shade 1549 -Service
General Robert W. Bazley
1965-1994 |
Air Force shade 84 Blue uniforms were
the first blue uniforms. |
The silver tan shade 193 uniforms were
the new summer uniform. |
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(7.)
Mc Peak - Service
Lt. General Alexander M. Sloan
1991-1994 |
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Retrofit - Service
General Hal Hornburg
1994 - Present |
| The uniform was named after General Merrill A. Mc Peak, the fifteenth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force - 30 October 1990 to 25 October 1994. Since the US Air Force separated from the US Army in 1947, the US Air Force uniform evolved very little. General Mc Peak felt the US Air Force uniform needed a long overdue change of appearance. In 1991, he ordered a change in the style and design of the service dress uniform. The change in style was so profound; the uniform has since become identified to the general. |
The retrofit service uniform replaced the Mc Peak service uniform in 1994. When General Merrill Mc Peak retired in 1994, the new Air Force Chief of Staff General Ronald Fogelman rescinded the orders mandating the change for the Mc Peak style uniform. However, the style did not revert back to the McConnell service uniform as many thought it would. Instead, a new service uniform was designed that was more popular with the personnel in the service. In the Air Force, this new uniform is called the Retrofit service uniform. It is the only regulation service uniform at this time, although a study is underway to the possibility of a new uniform becoming regulation in the new future. |
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Shade 84-Ike Service
BG - Unknown
1949-1965
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(10.)
Tropical White - service
BG - unknown
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(11.)
Black - Mess Dress
Major General Mike Kostelnik
1957 - Present
Mess Dress uniforms were for dress occasions.
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(12.) White Mess Dress
Lt. General Fred M. Dean |
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Semi Formal
Evening - Blue
1950-1965 |
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Semi Formal
Evening - Tan
Major General Daniel W. Jenkins
1950-1965 |
The semi formal evening dress uniforms were service uniforms worn with shirt and bow tie.
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(15.)
Formal evening
blue with gold trim
Major General - Unknown
1948-1959
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(16.)
Formal evening
Black with sliver trim
Major General Burton Spivey
1948-1959
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Ceremonial Dress White
Major General - Unknown
1986-1995 |
The formal evening dress uniform was the first uniform to be adopted by the USAF. It was approved in 1948, first worn in 1949. The first type was made of a blue-black material with the new gilt buttons. In the late 1950s the button changed to silver as well as the bullion trim from gold. This uniform was not seen outside Washington, D.C. These are very scarce uniforms to find. |
The ceremonial uniforms replaced the informal uniforms in 1986. As with their predecessors they were worn for special or dress occasions. Shoulder boards were worn on both uniforms. |
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Ceremonial Dress Blue
1986-1995
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(19.)
Informal - White
Major General Walter Arnold
1963 -1983 |
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Informal - Black
1963 - 1983
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