Chief Wright on OCP uniform photos: ‘My bad,’ no trolling intended

The Air Force is close — “like really close” — to making a decision on whether to adopt the Army’s Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright said in a Facebook post Tuesday.

But, Wright said, he didn’t intend to tease or “troll” airmen on Monday when he posted photographs of himself wearing OCPs during a trip to Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico.

Instead, he was trying to blend in with the airmen of the 27th Special Operations Group while he attended Air Force Special Operations Command’s Chief Symposium last week.

“Wow! I never thought I’d have to start a post off with ‘my bad’ but ... my bad!” Wright wrote on Facebook. “I like to follow the lead of our host unit whenever we travel. If they’re in blues, we’re in blues. If they’re in [Airman Battle Uniforms], so are we. And sometimes — like with our visit to the AOR [in the Middle East], Ft. Bliss, or our AFSOC units, if they’re in the OCPs, so are we.”