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slim84 (8/21/2008)
Ted, you guys a sure looking good...proud of you. Let me thank you and your brother for your service. Airborne!!Thanks ,Slim. The same for you as well. And, thanks Nietzche for your kind words. I often think that the guys who really paved the way for us were the WW2 guys. All the rest of us are just keeping the path clear for the guys coming behind us. AIRBORNE!!!
All the way, sir!!! 
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Green GI
 
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If this is the uniform that I will have to wear for the next six years, it makes me want to rethink my re-enlistment, and ask for a transfer to a unit that is deployed constantly, just to avoid having to wear the POS!
"Sir, Sir! Bounding overwatch does not mean taking a running leap into the SAW Gunner's field of fire!"
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield...
Jealousy is a sickness but Karma is a bitch.
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Regular Joe
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Is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that given the Airborne community's complaints about having our Jump Boots taken away and the one picture they display is a pudgy (supposed) Airborne Soldier who can't wear his beret properly, his shirt is to big and his awards droop off of him like an 80 year olds skin!
_________________________________________________ "Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat
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Jumpmaster_AJ (8/22/2008)
Is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that given the Airborne community's complaints about having our Jump Boots taken away and the one picture they display is a pudgy (supposed) Airborne Soldier who can't wear his beret properly, his shirt is to big and his awards droop off of him like an 80 year olds skin!Yeah, I guess he never heard of placing some padding between the badge pin and the backing. I used to cut 3X5 cards into strips for this purpose and it worked like a charm. His CIB is also approximately 8 feet above his oval. And even though he is allowed to place his jump wings above his ribbons, it would look a lot less cluttered if he placed them on his pocket flap beside his bolo badge. And - assuming he's still Infantry - where is his blue cord? In summary, this guy needs his ass kicked.
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Green GI
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As I said earlier, I will do all I can to not wear that pile of garbage! This also shows that the CSM's that makeup the uniform board don't really listen to actual Soldiers opinions. Every Soldier I have talked to likes the Blues, but as the formal uniform that they are. We as a service should have reverted to the Khakis like Ted is wearing in the photo, or the Pinks and Tans. And the whole business about eliminating the different variants of the uniform to reduce the cost to everyone, adding multiple headgear options and that stupid looking pin instead of an actual combat patch just adds more to the cost, not less.
"Sir, Sir! Bounding overwatch does not mean taking a running leap into the SAW Gunner's field of fire!"
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield...
Jealousy is a sickness but Karma is a bitch.
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Trooper
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Ted, thank you, brother, for your continuing service.
All I know is that, in some part, HQDA learned a lesson from ENI. MACOMs (COs and CSMs) were involved as was the CSA and SMA. Unlike in the past.
Don't know if its right or wrong (I'm definitely partial to the khakis and pinks and greens) but, at least, these uniforms are made in the US and not the wet dream of a certain retired CSA. 
You can run and you can hide, but you'll only die tired !
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Regular Joe
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| I still liked my OD uniform. This one taken in 1959. 
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