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While I can understand the motivation to change from the woodland BDUs (namely every bloody nation out there using something similar) I really don't understand why the DoD allowed all the services to design their own outfit rather than mandating a joint effort.
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| I was fortunate (?) to have come in when the last iteration of the OD green pickle suit was the standard uniform. No starch required (although you saw a lot of guys on post with starched fatigues.) The other mod I remember as being super cheesy was the sewn-in "crease" lines (two on front, four on the back) and name, US Army and rank embroidered directly onto the shirt. What I hated about the pickle suit was the baseball cap with the leather liner. That thing got so hot and covered with sweat in the summertime that you were lucky if a hat lasted 6 months. The 1st gen BDUs were came out during my break-in-service (1981-83.) I did get a couple of the elvis-collar BDUS issued when I was in the NG but at least by that time they had fixed the horrible fading problem. Remember that? They'd fade almost to "cook white" status! In 87 when I went back on AD I was issued the small collar BDUs with the waist tabs. Those were the first ones that were separated as temperate and hot-weather. Those were pretty much the standard until around the late 90's, IIRC, when they finally eliminated the waist tabs. I can't believe the AF stayed with a BDU-style design (i.e., 4 pocket shirt, no sleeve pockets, rank still sewn on the sleeves, etc.) Seems like they wasted a lot of money adopting a uniform that offers no increased utility over the old one, and is hotter to boot (because, you know, it's not like we ever go to war in places where it gets hot!  ) I'm starting to like that "get rid of the air force" idea more and more.
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Nietzsche (11/19/2007)
This whole branch-specific (recruiting tactic?) uniform fiasco is becoming a bit silly.Yep, each service gets their own field uniform with their own distinctive pattern but the dress uniforms are getting more generic with the Army going to a blue Class A. How about OD Cotton that you starched so much that they were like boards. Of course they didn't start to breath until you sweated through the starch. Hey, those starched cotton uniforms would last two days while you were in garrison. I was still wearing the ones I was issued at Benning in 1980, although they seemed to have shrunk just a little bit from when I received them at the reception station at Ft. Jackson. I did have to buy one of those permanent press pair when the laundry lost part of one uniform(I think the pants).
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khyros (11/18/2007)
Hmph... Raise your hand if your initial issue of BDUs consisted of the heavy weight ones with the Elvis collar... raised up.... though my initial issue of Field jackets consisted of one BDU and one OD Green as well.
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| Look familiar? 
"Let's Go Downtown" - Flight of the Intruder
http://www.327infantry.org/second/c_co Same Mud Same Blood - NBC documentary filmed 1967 RVN, chronicle Frank McGee
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| Just imagine how the knights at the round table probably bitched about THEIR uniforms.... ...aw bloody hell, these poofy feathers on my bloody helmet always flop down over me eyes when it rains.....it's hows I lost me left arm during that last crusade..... ....oh you think you have bloody problems.......try thrusting a lance for the bloody Queen while your chainmail is rusted to your arse! ....well if you could just drop these bloody britches to take a leak it wouldn't bloody rust...... ....where's that bloody Supply Knight?....
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| Short After Action Report. On the way home yesterday, I stopped outside Fort Jacksons main gate to check out the U.S. Patriot Store. http://www.uspatriotstore.com/ They had the new AF uniform next to the Army ACU. Same color pattern, so they blended into each other. But the straight chest pockets and no pockets on the sleeves made them easy to pull out and look at. The main problem I have with them, (yeah I tried a set on.....) are those internal p | | | |