Dumbest uniform you had to wear (in EMS)

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Looked silly, hard to maintain, uncomfortable, people laughed at you, dangerous...try us.
I'll start with a real tie-on tie. Old lady with dementia tried to climb it once.
 
mycrofft said:
Looked silly, hard to maintain, uncomfortable, people laughed at you, dangerous...try us.
I'll start with a real tie-on tie. Old lady with dementia tried to climb it once.
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Let me guess...she was going to swing off your handlebar mustache when she reached the top?:rofl:
 
My moustache was USAF Reg 35-10 compliant then, thank you!:rofl:
 
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I've worked a few places that had white shirts. Really, white? Who was the genius that came up with the idea that would be a good color?
 
Epi-do said:
I've worked a few places that had white shirts. Really, white? Who was the genius that came up with the idea that would be a good color?
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Agreed.

All our students and other various ridealongs wear white. As a medic student it was a task to make 3 pure white uniform shirts make it through a 4 day work week in a busy urban system.

I'm not a huge fan of our blue. We look way to similar to the police departments here, especially with the shoulder mics we have to wear now.
 
Also agree on white shirts. They suck.

The old uniform here, before flight suits, was a silver/tan polo and 5.11 EMS pants. Ugly to the Nth degree.
 
My last job was with the fire department, so we wore your typical navy blue. My current job does red polos with black pants. It doesn't seem to be to bad of a choice.
 
Ambulance company requires us to all wear the same 4 pocket, perma-creased 60/40 wool/polyester blend slacks. They are the absolute least comfortable pair of pants I have ever worn, with the added benefit of having about zero fluid repellency. They also fit poorly for me and the uniform shop did a horrendous job with the hemming.

We have nice light blue Elbeco button down shirts, but the pocket accents and epaulets are navy so we look like mall cops. They haven't faded too much, which is pretty good since I'll work fulltime hours for three or four months with two uniforms. The medics have white shirts and they do not look great after a few months.

The under armor hats they give us are nice I guess, just so I don't sound like a complete blowhard.
 
White shirts sucked to keep clean. My first private service job we had white button downs. I had them for awhile here when I was a sup and hated trying to keep them clean.

I don't mind the shades of green we wear now but it'd be nice to have the shirts/pants come from say 5.11 so they would be more comfortable.

The city I grew up in used tan 5.11 shirts and navy pants for awhile. They looked sharp, slightly different and no longer like the PD. the members loved them. Then they were switched to full nomex, navy shirts/pants and everytime we ran fires with them they complained and tried to damage out the items.
 
I liked white shirts and scrubs because you could really tell if you got spooged. I hated white scrubs and shirts because they were see-through when wet , see-through after a couple dozen washings, and seemed not to be able to shed stains like blue shirts did.
 
mycrofft said:
I liked white shirts and scrubs because you could really tell if you got spooged.
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What EMS job did you work where you were regularly spooged on? :blink:
 
"Spooged" was our generic term for blood and body fluids before we were concerned about it.
Why?

Oh, answer: we did all ambulance responses through a city contract, plus into the rural county as well. Prior job: IFT's mostly, plus body retrievals and drove limousines.
 
I have been trying to ditch that word for a while now....
 
JPINFV said:
What EMS job did you work where you were regularly spooged on? :blink:
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Maybe it was the prision job? I would think white is the perfect color to wear in the event of splooge
 
I hate badges.
 
I like my white shirts because it is easy to tell if you get "spooged". If I get "spooged" severely, which hasn't happened very often, I just turf the shirt. I don't pay for them so I just requisition another. I make sure I get issued 6 - 10 per year and that works for me. The other benefit of white is you do NOT look like a cop.

When I was a PCP student we wore a light blue shirt. It wasn't bad but we were often called bus drivers. As an ACP student we wore navy blue. Too much like the police, couldn't see the stains and lint or dandruff showed up easily.
 
I have never worked for Acadian Ambulance, and they sound like a fine agency... but there uniforms are the most butt ugly of any EMS agency in the USA I have ever seen.
 
schulz said:
I have never worked for Acadian Ambulance, and they sound like a fine agency... but there uniforms are the most butt ugly of any EMS agency in the USA I have ever seen.
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They aren't that bad lol.

I like that we stand out. I don't like that we blend into roadside foliage, get mistaken for border patrol, park rangers etc.
 
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