Old habits and styles die hard, especially in the case of Wyoming Deputy Gene Bryson, who is retiring after his particular style of clothing was excluded from the updated attire for the department. Rather than hang up his cowboy hat, boots, and vest, for a new uniform, Deputy Bryson has opted to turn in his badge, according to the Casper Star Tribune.
“I am not going to change,” he told the tribune. “I’ve been here for 40-odd years in the sheriff’s office, and I’m not going to go out and buy combat boots and throw my vest and hat away and say, ‘This is the new me.'”
And I’ve had a cowboy hat on since 19,’ Bryson said. ‘That’s what looks good to me in the sheriff’s department. It’s Western. It’s Wyoming.’
Apparently the sheriff made the change to fix the mix-and-match look to his department.
“I had my patrol deputies wearing one uniform, (and) I had detention wearing another uniform. It looked like the Skittles platoon,” said Haskell, 53, who’s worked in law enforcement for three years. “We had a rainbow of colors. Who the heck is who?”
So he decided on new uniforms: black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots and a black ball cap. And you won’t see Gene Bryson wearing any of it.
Despite Bryson leaving the department, he looks back on his 40 years in law enforcement with fond memories as a sheriff himself, an undersheriff, a captain, an investigator, a sergeant, and many other roles. He reflects on his time as “one hell of a ride.”
Bryson says he will now have more time to spend with family as well as running his gun shop in Marbleton, Wyoming.
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