Hey its hard enough trying to get a dress uniform and the cost is to costly for Volunteers the only way to get one free is to wait till someone leaves the service
Why as fire fighters these days do we need dress uniform - seriously, how often would you wear it and as for wearing medals on it, medals should only be worn for ceremonies - so it begs the question, who really needs a dress uniform. There was a time when GO's, DGO's Captains all got it issued, but in todays environment what a waste of money - it's hard enough for people to recognise the yellows as a fire service let alone someone wearing a pond slime green uniform.
Having seen a sample of the field uniform (similar to the crime scene uniform worn by SAPOL) except in green yaka material - maybe this is an option to replace dress uniform - can then also be worn under PPE (ie grass fire shirt0 for station duties, maintenance, public forums/community meetings and then gives a consistent image - green and yellow - without the confusion of the old pond slime green thrown in!
Just my thoughts, but having had the pond slime green, it gather more dust than anything else and was not recognised in the community - hence a poloshirt with the brigade mane and group was the prefer option and better accepted by the public too
