???

[conuly]

First, thank you everybody for the well-wishing on my birthday :)

Second, I'm watching Psych. And they're visiting the Army base, and everybody is in fatigues and... why are the flags on their sleeves upside down? Are they supposed to look like that? Why?

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

I've been told that Hollywood is supposed to make deliberate mistakes on military uniforms, but have not confirmed that

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

You are correct (I asked the Garrison Commander during an awards ceremony lol).

[norinel.livejournal.com]

Flag code says that in a procession or on something that moves, the field of stars should be on the forward end so it looks like the flag would be held by the wearer and flying behind him. Since military uniforms have the flag on the right sleeve, forward means on the right side of the flag as you look at it from the side. You see the same thing on the right side of an airplane.

[conuly]

Oh. I guess that makes sense...?

[conuly]

Here's a better question: What kind of backwards airport in the US not only makes you walk out on the tarmac to the plane but lets random people come up to the gate to say good-byes nowadays?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it ACUs, not fatigues? (ACUs are what Daniel is wearing in my Icon.)

[conuly]

Maybe...? I wouldn't know, all I know is that they're camo-print.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

OK, did it look like this (http://www.militaryhq.com/ProdImages/acu-pic04.jpg) or this (http://wardsurvival.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/woodland_bdu3.jpg)? The first is ACU's and neither fatigues or camo-print. Both of those terms refer to the second pattern (and its various incarnations in other color schemes). The oft-used other term for ACU's is "Digi's" or "Digitals". :)

[conuly]

Oh, I don't know, this was a week ago that episode was new.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah but you always tend to remember the nitpicky bits. :-p You're getting old.

[conuly]

I know you are, but what am I?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I WON'T GROW UP! I WON'T GROW UP!

[conuly]

I won't ever wear a tie! I won't ever wear a tie!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

And a serious expression! And a serious expression!

[conuly]

In the middle of July! In the middle of July! If growing up means it would be...

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

...beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up!

[conuly]

(If you didn't climb trees, how would you look anybody else in the eye, shorty?)

I won't grow up, never grow up, never grow uuuuup! Not me!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

(D: Meanie)

NOT I.

[conuly]

*smacksmack*

NOT ME! SO THERE!

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

BBBBLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!!