I am sure chosen and shown to send a message.  Well done guardsman (woman).

yes m9s are still current issue even in the AD, did you think some magical fairy overnight distributes M17s? You're looking at OCIE gear it has to be filled up over the next 6 or 7 years. And yes thats accurate, it took about that long to distribute the UCP pattern gear.  If the Army didn't piss around with uniform flair for the last 10 years there would be the correct gear in OCP.

I really do appreciate and love are you guys spouting off about logistics, weight control and counseling gems and all this other bullshit you have no idea about what it takes to get soldiers in the Armory and  trained in the field.  Guess what their are fat fucks on AD too. The big differences active-duty chapters them out.  and there's a constant influx of recruiting 18-25 yos  who BTW a good % are still out of shape and overweight. They can beat the hell out of them on active duty to go to the gym 24x7 and do all that other stuff or in 4 years they'll be out of a job,  a good half of them gets fed up leave.

NG is alot older like in there 28 to 30s about 1/2 is prior service and more  about retaining numbers, mainly because it's so hard to keep train people in their ranks. They're expected to do the exact same job with half the time. I have SNCOs that do do exercise programs and weight control on their own dime.  but taking a bunch of random part time people constantly telling them do exercise, be marathon runners and crossfitters to GDd non serving jags liking,  is near impossible and also accomplish the same certification proficiency tasks in a technical branch like artillery. Lets add in  SHARP, safety,  orders briefings, maintenance, supply issues, medical SRPs  and general admin bs  all in a 2 to 3 day weekend.  Plus mix in State missions like these, Hey you, crap for 2-3 weeks in DC.  Do you start to see the issue now?

Lets take you out of your regular job for 48-60 days a year with a 12mo deployment  for good measure and see how it works out for you.  This ain't your grandpappy's guard anymore and God forbid you're in a critical low-density MOS you are going to get rotated as backfills every 3 years.
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i like how you're worried about your tax dollars and also want the military to throw away current generation equipment that is the wrong color.  do you have any idea how much money it would cost to replace every piece of UCP patterned clothing and equipment at the same time instead of just replacing as it wears out?

Read more, post less 20er.

She is a real porker. I bet she works admin or supply.

Guess I wasn’t the only one. But add additional breaks in service post 9/11 while my peers all retired or retiring. Friend of mine a 13B E-8 with 21 yr letter laid into me about not finishing 20

Fat soldiers aside, clearly you have no clue as to the fiscal and logistical nightmare that is the Army and the "simple" pattern change to a uniform presents.

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If that's what you're taking out of this thread by your response you are part of the problem.

You mention how much it costs to change the color of equipment.  Like the initial "investment" in Universal Camouflage Pattern(UCP), otherwise known as the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) pattern was ever a good choice?!  Whoever made the decision to issue it in the first place should have been shot.  I won't doubt that the 2nd Amendment community forced the Army to upgrade their camo pattern to multicam and then OCP... because we already had Multicam and any idiot can see that UCP doesn't work for sh!t.

The 2012 GAO report estimated that it “may cost up to $4 billion over five years to replace” the Universal Camouflage Pattern uniform and related protective gear like body armor.  (less than 1% of the Army's annual budget... some of which would be spent on new gear anyway)

You failed to address the fact that it's obvious to the WHOLE WORLD that a whole lot of those soldiers CAN NOT PASS an APFT or ACFT fitness test.

Its painfully obvious to all that the M9A1's being issued in Washington DC, which based of on 1970's pistol and was originally issued in 1985 (36 years ago), is very much out of date.  I'm not sure that the Army's decision to issue an M17 pistol that discharges when dropped is that much better.  The US civilian market focuses around Glock and M&P which are better pistols and will last a lot longer than the M9A1 (which wears out after only 75,000 rounds).

You need to get your head out of the sand if you think keeping UCP to "save a little money" and endanger troops is a good idea.  Spending $1 billion/year to save lives is inexpensive in the grand scheme of Trillion dollar wars

Exactly.

99% of the people in this thread have no idea of how anything works past the few visual images that periodically grace their sphere of influence.

Soldiers get issued what is on hand in the inventory system for CONUS training. They get issued the latest generation or pattern equipment with deployment orders at RFI.  It isn't the most ideal system, but there is actually a system.

This is what an active duty combined arms formation looked like in 2006 right before a deployment.  It is what it is.









You seem to have several misconceptions about how the rollout of new equipment is prioritized with regard to need.