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2017-10-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Soldiers like new ‘pinks and greens' but aren't happy about growing wardrobe
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-22 12:21|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Somebody needs to take a long, hard look at the Army Uniform Board.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-22 12:30||   2017-10-22 12:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Besoeker,

Even better - put in a Federal reg that NO military service dress uniform can be changed (to an entirely new pattern) for 20 years after the last one.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-10-22 12:48||   2017-10-22 12:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Well Mike, I don't have an issue with the P&G's, they look fine. There have been however far, far too many uniform changes in the Army over the past 25-30 years. I can't even count the changes. The USMC on the other hand, very few changes.

These changes cost the soldier, the officer, and the taxpayer a bundle of money.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-22 12:52||   2017-10-22 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Time servers with nothing better to do trying to justify their salaries with time wasting churn.

Kind of like the average development exec in Hollywood.
Posted by charger 2017-10-22 13:33||   2017-10-22 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The Navy, until recently, had about 12 different sets of uniforms that an enlisted man was required to purchase and maintain. Including the 'blue fleck' fatigues that were known as 'kill the corpsman'.
The new Army dress blues, what with piping trim and all, are widely called 'gay'.
Somebody at the five sided funny farm is trying to justify their office and job.
Posted by ed in texas 2017-10-22 13:38||   2017-10-22 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Are new uniforms the most serious question facing today's military? Seriously?
Posted by Tom 2017-10-22 13:57||   2017-10-22 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Somebody Many people at the five sided funny farm is trying to justify their office and job.

FIFY....and that doesn't count the Lobbyists, contractors and pols.
Posted by AlanC 2017-10-22 14:13||   2017-10-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8  Are new uniforms the most serious question facing today's military?

Well no.
There's also the Beret color choice.
Posted by Chunky Spains6880 2017-10-22 14:13||   2017-10-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently the previous suppliers haven't been ponying up campaign contributions recently?
Posted by Frank G 2017-10-22 15:27||   2017-10-22 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Pinks and Greens were cited, usually with envy, by many WWII European historians and in Euro veterans memoirs as being a very visually impressive uniform that immediately identified officers. The leather belt for enlisted also made their jackets look less like a sack. And no matter what color current service coats look like sacks.

Now get rid of the beret with class A wear or office wear and bring back the saucer cap.

Berets belong to those who earn them. When everyone is special then no one is.
Posted by Ebburt Clelet2024 2017-10-22 15:37||   2017-10-22 15:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Berets belong to those who earn them

Berets were a Euro thingy, cause they all had them. Europhiles won out. As for earning, that is what the tabs are for. Ask them which they'd rather give up.

The SOP is that armies change uniforms after they lost (for morale building being the usual rationale).
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-22 16:08||   2017-10-22 16:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Berets suck. I stick with the Patrol Cap.
These uniform changes happen faster than I can keep up. It's is costly even with clothing allowance and very time consuming.

It's just more pork idiocy
Posted by newc 2017-10-22 16:32||   2017-10-22 16:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Looking at the pix at both the post and linked article. See green, but no pinks. Unless they mean the O-5, the sexist pigs..../sarc
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-10-22 18:39||   2017-10-22 18:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Berets are for Mannings or those whom you would never dare call a Manning for fear of your life.
Posted by Choluling Glineng1506 2017-10-22 19:55||   2017-10-22 19:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Just bring back the ODs (with baseball or patrol cap) for Garrison, Khakis (and saucer hats) for office duty and "undress" wear w/wo the forest gree jacket and belt, reserve Blues for formal dress only, and leave the BDUs issued by the unit for the specific field environment. Change the camo as needed, leave the OD, Khakhi and Blues alone for ever.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-10-22 22:27||   2017-10-22 22:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Berets, Stetsons Etc - reserved to specific where they are tradition - units where you earn them and cannot wear them until you do. Rangers, Airborne, SF, cavalry.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-10-22 22:30||   2017-10-22 22:30|| Front Page Top

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