It was a ironclad rule of the Air Force....you show up for a military-contracted passenger flight....you had to be in dress-uniform (Army, Air Force, Navy)....it didn't matter.
I showed up in St Louis, for one of these passenger flights....early 1990s. Military folks doing tickets/boarding.
Air Force couple shows up in uniform, and gets their boarding pass....boards....then goes to the plane toilet.....changing out of the uniform in jogging pants/t-shirts.
Around a dozen passengers (mostly junior officers) go berserk....'you-can't-do-that'.
The couple refuse to comply (they were both E-6's from what I could figure).
Contracted stewardesses refuse to get into this....telling the whiners to shut up.
Within a year....the regulation had changed so on these military-contracted flights....you could wearing civilian clothing.
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