Are you allowed to drink in public in your uniform?

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I'd be sacked before I'd finished my pint.

So why are that bunch of soldiers at the rugby allowed to?

And AIBU to be both a touch and about it?

Nurses, surgeons, chefs and the like really ought not to be seen outside of work any where at all in their uniforms/whites. It's a hygiene thing, surely?

Which isn't really a consideration for most fusiliers. Besides, you can spot a male soldier a mile off by the way he tucks his nearly ironed shirt into his jeans

Always :

At those public you werent allowed to be seen drinking dp did Royal Tourment however like what has been said upthread they wouldnt of been on duty.

Ands theres drinking at the NAFFI in everyday that ends in way.
Why the attack about my post theres another thread started tonight Army bashing too

Nobody is army bashing.

Unless you count the replies that haven't bothered to read what has been said previously, that jump to conclusions and assumptions that are wrong.

taggie soldiers are not under the NMC like we are, my husband is a soldier and I'm a midwife, it's silly to think I would sit in my uniform in the mess drinking alcohol, yes you would be sacked before you finished your pint and that 'bunch' of soldiers were entitled to be there for whatever reason, if you are envious catch a grip and if you are shocked, well catch an ever bigger grip.

Lol at alwayslate and VIP lounge at Brize.

I was approached by some Soldiers in town and asked if I knew a charity shop they could buy dresses from so directed them to the decent one.

It was later in our local paper that they had been turned away from the pub while in Uniform so had 'dressed up'

Lordy, they weren't prepared, were they? At least the marines bring their dresses with them.

Haha... I think their plane had been delayed so bags all packed and probably been taken away

My dad was in the RAF. They used to have events which ended up with breakfast in the mess in the morning.

They still do, Kim!

Taggie if you would like 'fair' feel free to be on call 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, to leave your family for months on end and have leave cancelled the day before you go on holiday.

Then of course you can wear uniform in public with a beverage!

FWIW I have never met a soldier who would CHOOSE to wear uniform in public... It will have been a condition of getting the tickets.

No bollocks about whose job is hardest please.

"I was approached by some Soldiers in town and asked if I knew a charity shop they could buy dresses from so directed them to the decent one."

Well they won't have been Marines (always travel and deploy with their own dresses), so my guess is Brigade of Gurkhas.

Too late, Stella, I already made that quip ;-)

I've been to plenty of all night mess events where breakfast is scheduled as the final event. It's always very welcome!

As a student midwife, I am afraid I would not even get the chance to register if I was seen drinking in my uniform :P

I think the most disturbing thing is the instant association between drinking and disrepute.

A bunch of people standing round having a drink (regardless of occupation) doesn't always lead to trouble.

Getting lairy in the mess is quite different to doing the same en masse in a small market town high street (although Ninja is of course right too).

Oh aye, jenai. Hence the amount of out of bounds rules following said incidents.

There are always idiots.

A lot of small towns do struggle financially when the military moves out, as well. Sometimes the positive financial impact is outweighed by the anti-social.