Miss Military Mom will offer the new AF OCP in short sleeve beginning November 2019. Below is the AF rollout schedule.
OCP Timeline:
July 2018: The Air Force expects to release an Air Force guidance memorandum on how to properly wear the OCP uniform.
Oct. 1: ”Optional wear” of the OCP will begin. That means anyone who already has the uniform hanging in his or her closet ― such as from a previous deployment to Afghanistan ― will be able to wear it.
Also that month, OCPs will go on sale at AAFES stores at a handful of bases ― Aviano Air Base in Italy, Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, and Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.
The Air Force will gradually expand from there, as the Defense Logistics Agency ramps up its ability to produce more of the new uniforms.
April 1, 2019: More AAFES stores ― but not yet all ― will start to get the OCP.
Oct. 1, 2019: New airmen coming in through basic military training, officer training school, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps will get their OCPs beginning next October, when LaBrutta said the production capacity is expected to be able to meet that demand.
Military training instructors and military training leaders will also start wearing OCPs at that time, to demonstrate proper dress and appearance standards to trainees.
AAFES is expected to start selling OCPs online next October as well.
June 2020: All airmen must transition to coyote brown boots. The old sage green boots, which most airmen wear with their ABUs, or desert sand boots, worn by some who already have OCPs, will no longer be allowed.
April 1, 2021: The final deadline for all of the more than 500,000 total force airmen to be wearing OCPs, and stop wearing ABUs once and for all.
Nikki Beadle
Hello— when will you begin selling the USAF OCP coyote brown tshirts? I’d really like to have some before Jan when I return to work. Thank you!