Posted: 7/14/2009 2:38:48 AM EDT
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Uniform review
I just can't believe that after all the research done on these new uniform patterns that they are reviewing them again. Does the .mil really need 5 different camo uniforms? I thought it was bad when I was in the Navy and we had 5 different dress/working uniforms. IMO, all 4 branches need to slim down to 2 uniforms, an OD fatigue to wear on post and shipboard, and an appropriate camo issued to troops that deploy. A Sailor doesn't need blue digital BDU's to sit behind a radar console, an Airman doesn't need an ABU tiger stripes to work on an aircraft, and a supply clerk doesn't need cammies to sit behind a desk. Money needs to be spent on improving equipment and material readiness instead of this jumble of uniforms. (rant completed) |
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I was in the navy and the reason why we had so many different uniforms was for clothing to match the season, climate, and the duty. You need dungarees for dirty jobs, you need the whites for summer and for the tropics, you need the darker woolen blues to stay warm in winter cold. There are also times when you will need a formal uniform too.
I am currently serving in the army. Yes, the olive drab green fatigues or the green woodland camoflauge are good combat uniforms for forested green areas. But you will need a khaki or desert camoflauge combat uniform for the deserts, which is much of the middle east where we are fighting now. |
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Uniform review I just can't believe that after all the research done on these new uniform patterns that they are reviewing them again. Does the .mil really need 5 different camo uniforms? I thought it was bad when I was in the Navy and we had 5 different dress/working uniforms. IMO, all 4 branches need to slim down to 2 uniforms, an OD fatigue to wear on post and shipboard, and an appropriate camo issued to troops that deploy. A Sailor doesn't need blue digital BDU's to sit behind a radar console, an Airman doesn't need an ABU tiger stripes to work on an aircraft, and a supply clerk doesn't need cammies to sit behind a desk. Money needs to be spent on improving equipment and material readiness instead of this jumble of uniforms. (rant completed) I've already done a topic on the poor coloration of the ACU. And it prompted me to buy some dye and show you what the ACU should look like (at least as opposed to gray, which blends in with nothing but clean rocks). 
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Quoted: Agreed that the blue camoflauge pattern uniforms are stupid. It is just fashion, they're not about utility. Camoflauge patterns should be in natural colors, different shades of green and brown. The blue digi's are about utility, dark camo patters can stain without being as visible, ergo they stay serviceable longer than the janitor uniform (dungarees) they've got sailors in now. |
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But in the good old days, when working uniforms were working uniforms the dungarees could get worn almost all the way through or so encrusted with stains that they could stand in the corner by themselves before anybody got too upset about their condition. In fact in the shipyard enviromnet dungarees got really disasterous and nobody particularly cared.
And if you were wearing them at sea and went overboard, you weren't much more visible then the new digis are. Fire resistant coveralls would make sense in a shipboard environment. |
| I always thought the old dungarees were really comfortable too, and the khaki's usually let them get pretty "salty" before you got bitched at, they just made everybody look like a prisoner. I got out of the Nav right before they issued the utilities, but I had to wear them a couple of times in the reserves and they were awful. But I agree, fire resistant coveralls should be SOP underway. |
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Uniform review I just can't believe that after all the research done on these new uniform patterns that they are reviewing them again. Does the .mil really need 5 different camo uniforms? I thought it was bad when I was in the Navy and we had 5 different dress/working uniforms. IMO, all 4 branches need to slim down to 2 uniforms, an OD fatigue to wear on post and shipboard, and an appropriate camo issued to troops that deploy. A Sailor doesn't need blue digital BDU's to sit behind a radar console, an Airman doesn't need an ABU tiger stripes to work on an aircraft, and a supply clerk doesn't need cammies to sit behind a desk. Money needs to be spent on improving equipment and material readiness instead of this jumble of uniforms. (rant completed) I've already done a topic on the poor coloration of the ACU. And it prompted me to buy some dye and show you what the ACU should look like (at least as opposed to gray, which blends in with nothing but clean rocks). http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c132/Wooddevil/IMG_0555.jpg Link, please? |
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Get-your-hands-dirty maintenance work and other utility work should have its own utility uniform, something durable that washes well and is comfortable and doesn't restrict movement or get caught in machinery. Camo for field use. In types suitable for the climate. I don't see that BDUs are the right uniform in the maintenance shop far from a combat area. Basic dress uniforms for office work. Class As for ceremonies and when a higher level of appearance is required. The BDUs were introduced to standardize the basic duty/combat uniform across all services. Now every service wants their own distinct uniforms again, across the board. I don't agree with that. As far as I'm concerned, the right answer would have been to update the BDUs with patterns and color schemes that test well in the field, and make them standard issue to all services. That being said, I have to say that I like the Air Force's new (green) tiger stripe DCUs. Not that most Airmen are actually going to need camo in their typical working environment very often. CJ |