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    IH-526-ODG "Party Jacket Tour"

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    • UnTuckedU
      UnTucked
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      Ladies and gents, the tour begins!

      Well, in actuality, it began Saturday, but that's neither here nor there… I'm one of the world's few IT professionals that doesn't have a PC at home, and I just didn't want to bother with trying to get it all going from Tapatalk.

      Either way, the first leg, which will be a short leg (Only lasting until Fish & Chips) will be ran by me, and from there, so far we have a few people on the hook:

      @Giles (Who will try to squeeze in to it at least once, if possible)
      @den1mhead
      @sabergirl
      @Fadez
      @emceeQ
      @celik
      @hajduk
      @Jim
      @illo59
      @don_pipone
      @thomas01
      @Fadez
      @sabergirl

      I'm not really so great at organizing things, as @neph93 is, so we'll go with the flow, pretty much. There is still an indefinite amount of space on the tail end of the tour as well, and I imagine after some mods are added to it, more people will want to join the party.

      In search of:
      IHV-04, med.
      IHSH-185, large
      IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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      • UnTuckedU
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        The first leg of the journey takes place in Mildenhall, England…

        The towns' signage (pictured below) should let you know, there ain't much going on here, aside from the ducks and old folks... Because aside from the US Air Force bases, that's all that's out here... I literally live next to 4 retirement communities, lol!

        Day1 consisted of taking the jacket to the Quick Stich shop in town, and getting some awesome liberty cuffs added on, courtesy of @Alex. I had already bought some from @Joule with plans to use them for the jacket, but the awesome King Neptune ones are just so badass and perfect! The color match is great!!!

        While in town, we decided to grab a few malted beverages, for our evening walk by the river, pictured next.

        And….

        The fit pics...

        Cuffs down:

        Party-mode:

        BONUS pic:

        The side pockets make a nice inside pocket, perfect for hiding your dranks whilst walking through the old folks village, lol!

        Peek-a-booze!!!!!

        In search of:
        IHV-04, med.
        IHSH-185, large
        IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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        • S
          sabergirl
          見習いボス
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          Nice! Let the party begin. I'm not sure how much I'll really be able to wear the jacket in July or August, but I'll bring it along for the ride.  The cuffs look great. Good choice.

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          • UnTuckedU
            UnTucked
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            Yeah, we have a heatwave coming through for the next couple of weeks, and I hear it will top out at 33C… Mind you, on Saturday when I took the pics, I was wearing a jacket because it was cool and breezy. I'll likely be doing some hand-carrying for the rest of my leg, unless we head out to the pub in the evening...

            I guess it's time to get creative, lol

            In search of:
            IHV-04, med.
            IHSH-185, large
            IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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            • GilesG
              Giles
              IHUK Crew
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              Or go to the pub regularly…..

              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              • UnTuckedU
                UnTucked
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                @Giles:

                Or go to the pub regularly…..

                But, "house pub" has no dress code….. I'm just sayin, lol!  😃 😃 😃

                In search of:
                IHV-04, med.
                IHSH-185, large
                IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                • GilesG
                  Giles
                  IHUK Crew
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                  Gosport pub dress code.  As much or as little as you want….

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • UnTuckedU
                    UnTucked
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                    Gosport: "Don't waste an outfit… We're not worth it"  😃 😃 😃

                    In search of:
                    IHV-04, med.
                    IHSH-185, large
                    IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                    • gaseousclayG
                      gaseousclay
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                      That's a new one – never seen an 'elderly people' sign before  😃

                      WTB:
                      IHSH-129 size L (blue)
                      IHSH-19

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                      • emceeQE
                        emceeQ
                        啓蒙家
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                        Great start to the tour @UnTucked

                        Looking back at the old thread measurements will be borderline, but I should be able to squeeze into it…

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                        • Matty123M
                          Matty123
                          Raw and Unwashed
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                          Sweet patches. God damn!

                          Maybe so. Maybe not

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                          • RoxRocks86R
                            RoxRocks86
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                            Is that Ariel’s dad on the cuffs?

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                            • UnTuckedU
                              UnTucked
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                              Idk, you tell me, Little Mermaid… 🤣

                              In search of:
                              IHV-04, med.
                              IHSH-185, large
                              IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                              • C
                                celik
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                                The elderly people sign 😃
                                Jacket looks awesome @UnTucked and a great start to the tour.

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                                • UnTuckedU
                                  UnTucked
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                                  People generally tend to think I'm exaggerating when I talk about this quaint retirement village, lol!

                                  But in all fairness, a more accurate sign would have them on mobility scooters… Seriously, they ride around on the roads like a biker gang, lol!  😃 😃 😃

                                  In search of:
                                  IHV-04, med.
                                  IHSH-185, large
                                  IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                                  • SeulS
                                    Seul
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                                    Great kick off… And yeah that old farts sign was new to me as well...  😉

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                                    • UnTuckedU
                                      UnTucked
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                                      Well, with the UK in it's currently "summertime", and it's too warm to comfortably wear the jacket during daylight hours, so I decided that today would be "Take your jacket to work" day…

                                      I'm sure some of you have seen a few fit pics from me with this view, but I'll give a little bit of an explanation of what it is that I do for a living.

                                      "RF Communications/Datalinks Systems Engineer"

                                      Basically, I am the local unit's 'subject matter expert' on engineering, installing, training and maintaining military radio communications. Whether it be point-to-point via UHF/VHF line of sight systems, SATCOM (satellite communications), HF, or microwave systems, I'm the go-to guy for our ground-air and ground-ground long haul, secured communications. Another part to it is the ability to provide "radio over IP"... Basically, there's a server rack full of radios in my office, and they're connected to a radio server/gateway and a switch, which makes them able to be broadcast across our network, so that commanders can have "command and control" capabilities of their aircraft from their workstation, rather than having to go to the air operations control center.

                                      If all of that techno jargon wasn't painful enough, here's an Army recruitment video talking about the basic premise of what I do, minus the gun and cool uniform lol!

                                      Day to day, it's fairly mundane, especially considering that I don't deploy like I used to in Okinawa... Military radios are VERY robust and rarely break, so I basically come in to work, send a few test messages/emails, make a few voice calls to ensure everything is working, and then I'm waiting 8hrs for stuff to break, which as I stated earlier, rarely happens. But, when it does..... Of course it's at the worst possible moment, i.e. at 2am while a plane is flying to Croatia for a training mission, and we lose comms for 2hrs. Obviously that's not ok, so because of that, I'm on 24/7 recall status, unless I'm on vacation.

                                      Ok, enough nerd shit! Here's my pic of the party jacket with my helical SATCOM antenna farm on the roof of my work building.

                                      In search of:
                                      IHV-04, med.
                                      IHSH-185, large
                                      IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                                      • wdwW
                                        wdw
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                                        Very interesting to read that.  God, my job is so dull in comparison.  😞

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                                        • UnTuckedU
                                          UnTucked
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                                          The home station/in-office portion of it is really, REALLY mundane… The unit here in England chooses to utilize me in a way that is very different than the unit in Okinawa did... There, they prefer to have me here at unit headquarters, handling all of the back-end, behind the scene tasks, where as in Okinawa, I was on the road doing training missions and 'deployments'.

                                          I was actually one of the first 2 people on ground for the emergency humanitarian relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan (Super Typhoon Yolanda) that devastated the Philippines in November 2013.

                                          In search of:
                                          IHV-04, med.
                                          IHSH-185, large
                                          IHSH-186, large (khaki, and green)

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                                          • den1mheadD
                                            den1mhead
                                            Raw and Unwashed
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                                            Official handover at Fish n Chips 2018 [emoji16]

                                            Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk

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