What does BDU stand for?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What does BDU stand for?

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:08:23 PM EDT

I know what they are but, what does "BDU" stand for?

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:09:13 PM EDT

[#1]

Battle Dress Utility
Steve

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:10:06 PM EDT

[#2]

Badly Dresses Unit

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:10:50 PM EDT

[#3]

I always thought it stood for "[b]B[/b]ig [b]D[/b]ick [b]U[/b]nderneath."

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:11:05 PM EDT

[#4]

Battle Dress Uniform

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:12:57 PM EDT

[#5]

Blonds Don't Understand

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:12:59 PM EDT

[#6]

Badly Designed Underwear

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:25:01 PM EDT

[#7]

Bomb The Taliban.....Oops sorry. Thats BTT

Posted: 10/30/2001 4:44:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Big Dumb and Ugly!

Posted: 10/31/2001 4:55:34 AM EDT

[#9]

Battle Dress Uniform

BKVic

Posted: 10/31/2001 5:23:39 AM EDT

[#10]

Bravo Delta Uniform [:)]

Posted: 10/31/2001 8:18:10 AM EDT

[#11]

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I always thought it stood for "[b]B[/b]ig [b]D[/b]ick [b]U[/b]nderneath."

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LMFAO beekeeper

Posted: 10/31/2001 8:20:32 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Battle Dress Utility
Steve

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This is the TRUE Abbreviation.

Posted: 10/31/2001 2:56:52 PM EDT

[#13]

Battle Dress Uglies
Been wearing mine since I was 17.
Have to laugh when everyone asks me for a set. More often than not, while hunting, I wear my blue-jeans.

Posted: 10/31/2001 3:10:02 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Battle Dress Utility
Steve

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This is the TRUE Abbreviation.

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BDU = Battle Dress - Uniform

PBR = Patrol Boat - River

See below

Posted: 10/31/2001 3:11:33 PM EDT

[#15]

after wearing them for almost 10 years in the infantry, i can say with 100% accuracy that BDU is the acronym for "BATTLE DRESS UNIFORM" NOT battle dress utility , at least in the US Army.

Posted: 10/31/2001 5:37:18 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
after wearing them for almost 10 years in the infantry, i can say with 100% accuracy that BDU is the acronym for "BATTLE DRESS UNIFORM" NOT battle dress utility , at least in the US Army.

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It is "BATTLE DRESS UNIFORM" per page 179 AR 670-1 Like EX11B said, but I am not sure about the rest of the services.

Posted: 10/31/2001 9:38:24 PM EDT

[#17]

IT STANDS FOR BATTLE DRESS UNIFORM.....but that does sound a little on the fem side for me. We always called them utilities.

[marines]

Posted: 11/1/2001 2:16:55 AM EDT

[#18]

if you really want to know about BDUs i suggest a visit to your local recruiting station. and bring your birth certificate! we dont call them BDUs in my Corps but then again we dont wear them to the mall and to Wendys like Army guys do. i just dont understand this camo fashion craze lately. i would NEVER pay hard earned money to masqurade as something im not. i just dont understand it. but in the Corps utilities are considered Ugly and you never want to be seen in public in them.

Posted: 11/1/2001 5:17:30 AM EDT

[#19]

We used to run in "boots and ute's".
...as in UTILITIES.

Posted: 11/1/2001 5:28:15 AM EDT

[#20]

In the Air Force they are UTILITIES.

Blues are Uniforms and Greens and Cammies are Utilities.

And DvlDog, the Air Force is the same NO public display of Utilities.

Posted: 11/1/2001 5:49:00 AM EDT

[#21]

If you wear BDUs in public, I consider you a faker/wannabe, unles you have Service, name and rank sewed on, and you are at the grocery store gettin milk on the way home from the post.
I don't own any camo.

Posted: 12/4/2001 10:08:30 PM EDT

[#22]

If you don't believe me, just look at the tag.
U=Utility
Steve

Posted: 12/4/2001 10:19:24 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
if you really want to know about BDUs i suggest a visit to your local recruiting station. and bring your birth certificate! we dont call them BDUs in my Corps but then again we dont wear them to the mall and to Wendys like Army guys do. i just dont understand this camo fashion craze lately. i would NEVER pay hard earned money to masqurade as something im not. i just dont understand it. but in the Corps utilities are considered Ugly and you never want to be seen in public in them.

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Ahh those Marines have such great fashion sense. TEXAS! TEXAS! only two things come from texas and your the one with 2 legs.

Posted: 12/4/2001 10:50:14 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
In the Air Force they are UTILITIES.

Blues are Uniforms and Greens and Cammies are Utilities.

And DvlDog, the Air Force is the same NO public display of Utilities.

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Care to put money on that? I was at the federal courthouse here in town last month for a naturalization ceremony and I was appalled to see USAF personnel show up for the ceremony in their BDUs. I was even more appalled to see that one of them wore the diamond of a squadron First Sergeant.

Man, I've only been out of the Air Force for 13 years. I didn't think I'd already be saying, "Back in my day sonny, we didn't stand for that kind of nonsense, no sir!" [:D]

Posted: 12/5/2001 4:26:37 AM EDT

[#25]

but in the Corps utilities are considered Ugly and you never want to be seen in public in them.

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But you're still expected to have sharp creases and shiny boots (at least when you aren't in the field).

Posted: 12/5/2001 4:31:36 AM EDT

[#26]

Madmortigan I got out of the USAF in 98 and they were "uniform" then. If that has changed since then I would not be aware of that.
john

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