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What are your uniform requirements?
What uniforms does your dept have and when are you required to wear them?
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Permalink Reply by John on
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We have a class "B" and a class "C" uniform the "C" class is for summer time use and must be worn while at the station when on duty, the class "B" is winter time use and is a button up shirt with badge and name tag.
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Permalink Reply by Kimberly A Bownas on
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Being a Vollie department the only uniform that we have is our class A's. these are worn for funerals, parades and anything that the department lets us know about. If you want to consider it a uniform then we have work shirts and t-shirts that we wear at fundraisers and anything else. Plus those get worn most of the time by the members anyway even without something going on.....
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Oh yeah, and my paid EMS job is a pair of uniform style pants and a uniform white shirt with EMS collar brass and my name badge. We don't wear a uniform badge cause in the city that I work we maybe mistaken for the police. It is safer that way. Oh and we are to wear a navy blue t-shirt underneath in case of having to be deconed.
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Permalink Reply by LadyChaplain on
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We have class a and class b uniforms. Class A uniforms are the classic "dress" uniform worn typically for ceremonial purposes (Wakes/Funerals, Inspection, Installation, Parades). Our Class B uniforms are also called our "work" uniforms (5.11 tactical shirt and pants, optional job-shirt). We wear these for other events like fire prevention, open house, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on
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WE have class "A" dress uniforms, but on duty we wear fatique pants and t-shirts.
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Permalink Reply by Just Plain Craig Moyer on
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We have "dress" uniforms and also cuty uniforms which are pants and choice of t-shirt, duty pullover or duty shirt. We're volunteer. We wear the duty uniform on ambulance duty or for cover ups. The issue is we have so many choices we can never get 5 guys to wear the same thing. We end up with 5 variations on a theme
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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We have three basic uniforms, of which two have slight variations.
Our Dress (Class A) uniform is what you'd expect - dress coat and hat over dress pants, long-sleeved shirt, and a tie.
Chief officer's hats have white crowns, all other ranks have navy blue crowns.
The variation is that the honor guard wears waist-length coats (Ike Jackets) with white neckerchiefs, white belts, white gloves, white puttees, and white coat trim.
Our Service (Class B) uniform is either dress pants or EMS-type BDU pants with a short-sleeved uniform shirt with badge, name plate, and collar brass.
Our Utility (work) uniform is EMS-type BDUs with gray golf shirts for officers and blue uniform t-shirts for firefighters.
The variations include a white uniform golf shirt for staff officers for less formal events and a third golf shirt variation for civilian personnel including the shop supervisor, emergency management staff, and the pub ed coordinator.
Standard uniform of the day is Utility uniform for line personnel, maintainence personnel, and the Logistics captain.
Chief officers, the Training captain, and the fire inspectors usually wear Service uniform.
Training wears Utilities for field work and Service uniform in the office.
That said, we have a committee looking into changing all of our uniforms except for the dress uniforms.
We also issue PT shorts to line personnel for working out. They can't be worn on calls unless under turnout pants.
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Permalink Reply by PFC Harmon on
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We are a small voil. dept. but at our meetings or scheduled duty at the station we wear black station boots, black BDU's or ems pants and a fd t-shirt. We also have dress shirts with a badge and name tag for more formal events.
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Kimberly,
Just curious - why wear white as an EMS shirt - even small smudges make the white look bad.
Also, why wear a uniform shirt designed for a badge, with or without a badge, if you don't want to look like the cops? Why not wear scrub tops, a golf shirt with embroidery, or even a uniform t-shirt?
I've worked for places that did exactly what you describe, and none of the administrators could ever explain a logical rationale for the uniform shirt choice. I've also worked places where the FD EMS division wore uniforms that were exactly the same as the cops - all navy blue - except for the shape of the badge and the lack of a gun belt, and no one ever mistook us for the cops.
If you have anything to explain this, I'd be interested in hearing it.
Ben
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